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View of gun emplacements from South-West
C 66986 CN
Description View of gun emplacements from South-West
Date 26/5/1996
Catalogue Number C 66986 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 600939
Scope and Content World War II six-inch gun emplacements, Hoxa Battery, Hoxa Head, South Ronaldsay, 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 north-western and southern entrances to the Flow, the latter covered by the coast batteries on Stanger Head on Flotta and here on Hoxa Head on South Ronaldsay. This general view of the battery shows the open fronts of the two canopied World War II gun emplacements, each of which housed a six-inch gun, the largest land-based armament in Orkney. The small, flat-roofed and windowed buildings between the gun houses served as temporary crew shelters, and in the background is the Battery Observation Post (BOP) from which all operations were directed. 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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