Interior. Officers Quarters. View of Board/Meeting room.

Description Interior. Officers Quarters. View of Board/Meeting room.

Date 6/6/1996

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 672417

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 3108

Scope and Content Meeting room, World War II officers' quarters, 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 the interior of the conference or meeting room contained within the officers' quarters of Ness Battery, the furnishings reflecting post-1955 use by the Territorial Army. The walls are lined with a timber lower section or dado, and the roof is supported on a series of lightly braced rafters and wall-posts. 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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