View of officers' hut from South East

Description View of officers' hut from South East

Catalogue Number SC 670761

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 73102 CN

Scope and Content World War II officers' huts, 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 view of the wartime accommodation huts associated with Ness Battery shows on the left-hand or south side of the central track the group of units which make up the officers' quarters, and, on the right, one angle of the canteen block. The huts are uniformly of timber weatherboarded construction with shuttered windows and gabled, zinc-covered roofs. 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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