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Scanned image of view of search light No.4 from North-East
SC 673987
Description Scanned image of view of search light No.4 from North-East
Date 26/5/1996
Catalogue Number SC 673987
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 73051 CN
Scope and Content 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 rear view of one of the round-fronted World War II searchlight emplacements shows it in its high-level cliff-top context, commanding a broad sweep of Hoxa Sound in conjunction with its three associated structures. In contrast to such neat buildings of shuttered concrete, many of the battery searchlights in the early years of World War II were hurriedly improvised structures of turf, tin and sandbags, and without roofs. 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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