Scanned image of view of search light No.3 from inside looking to Hoxa Sound.
SC 673985
Description Scanned image of view of search light No.3 from inside looking to Hoxa Sound.
Date 26/5/1996
Catalogue Number SC 673985
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 73047 CN
Scope and Content Interior, World War II searchlight, 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 is a view of an oil tanker and attendant vessels in Hoxa Sound seen from within a round-fronted World War II searchlight emplacement, close to the position which the wartime searchlight mechanism and lens would have occupied. It gives a good indication of the broad sweep of water which such a light would have commanded at full stretch. A curtain-like, sliding metal shield, made up of a number of steel shutter panels, enabled the front aperture to be adjusted or closed as required. 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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