Scanned image of view of Searchlight No.4, detail of shutter rails
SC 673992
Description Scanned image of view of Searchlight No.4, detail of shutter rails
Date 26/5/1996
Catalogue Number SC 673992
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 73056 CN
Scope and Content Shutter rails, 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 detail of the bracketed end of one end of the top guide rail for the steel shutters in one of the round-fronted World War II searchlight emplacements. It shows how the guide-rail is made up of multiple parallel lengths of steel, in order to allow the movement of a number of sliding shutter panels, slotted within the rails. 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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