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Scanned image of detail of top of buried fuel tank with valves and connections
SC 673962
Description Scanned image of detail of top of buried fuel tank with valves and connections
Date 26/5/1996
Catalogue Number SC 673962
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 73013
Scope and Content World War II underground oil tank outlet, 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 square concrete base, originally covered, surrounds the top of an underground oil storage tank, from which the fuel was pumped as required for the diesel generators in the nearby engine room. The valve connectors are visible and in the background, the low concrete ramp used for filling the tank from oil drums can also be seen. 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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