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Scanned image of view of World War I trench and gun emplacement from North-East
SC 673973
Description Scanned image of view of World War I trench and gun emplacement from North-East
Date 26/5/1996
Catalogue Number SC 673973
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 73030 CN
Scope and Content Trench to magazine, World War I four-inch gun emplacement, 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 view across Hoxa Sound shows, in the foreground, the curving and deep rock-cut trench leading back from one of the four World War I four-inch gun emplacements to the subterranean magazine or ammunition store which lies just off camera on the bottom left. Each pair of emplacements was linked to the magazine by two such trenches, thus forming an overall horseshoe-shaped layout, the general aim being to store the ammunition in a semi-buried position at a safe distance from the guns. 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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