View of oil tank

Description View of oil tank

Catalogue Number SC 670744

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 73085

Scope and Content World War II fuel tank, 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. Standing close to the diesel engine room in a remote corner of the battery precincts is this large block of concrete which encases and protects the upper part of the oil fuel tank within. It was filled from oil drums laid in the curved concrete 'cradle' on top of the tank, while the small circular hole in the centre side of the tank may mark the position of a piped outflow. 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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