Engine house: detail of vent and shutter

Description Engine house: detail of vent and shutter

Catalogue Number SC 670741

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 73083

Scope and Content Ventilators, World War II engine room, Ness Battery, Stromness, Mainland, Orkney Islands In both World Wars coast batteries were built to protect the channels into Scapa Flow and Kirkwall Bay, where there was an important contraband control. The greatest concentrations of firepower were at the main southern and north-western entrances to the Flow, the latter covered by a series of coast batteries centred, in World War II, on Ness Battery at Stromness. This is a detailed view of one set of five slit ventilators at the wall-head of the engine room which still retains its wooden-framed shutter board. These high-level ventilators, which occur in groups of five all around the building, were designed to assist in the dispersal of the diesel fumes from the generators within. Also visible are two pairs of insulated guide-brackets for electrical cables and the heads of two blocked-up 'windows' which originally accommodated the projecting radiator 'snouts' of a pair of diesel engines. At the heart of the Orkney archipelago, Scapa Flow was the main fleet anchorage for the Royal Navy during both World Wars. Its vital importance led to the creation of one of the most concentrated defence networks in Britain. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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