Crew room: detail of steel window shutters
SC 670757
Description Crew room: detail of steel window shutters
Catalogue Number SC 670757
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 73096 CN
Scope and Content Window shutters, World War II crew shelter, six-inch gun emplacement, 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. Typical of the blast-proof protection provided in the immediate vicinity of the gun houses at Ness Battery is this pair of casement-style, externally-hinged shutters made of heavy-duty riveted steel and protecting one of the windows of a temporary crew shelter. 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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