Scapa Flow Shiptime Project 2017
Date 28 July 2017
Event ID 1172325
Category Recording
Type Remote Operated Vehicle Survey
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1172325
Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) inspection of anomalies detected in the phase 1 salvage sites project (2017) identified the following features at the eastern side of the primary salvage site for SMS Derfflinger where the vessel was raised by Metal Industries on 25 July 1939 before moving to the east side of Rysa for clearance work.
All locations given to UTM 30 N (WGS84 datum).
(SS122) X: 488602 Y: 6527124. A large Danforth-type anchor located around 100m to the north east of the main seabed depression left by the hull of Derfflinger.
Nearby to the north west there was a concrete block probably used in salvage operations, and a torpedo mast. SS055 (see salvage sites phase 1) was verified , not as part of the aft mast but as one leg of the forward tripod mast. To the north west of this was a large diesel engine probably from one of the large diesel boats kept on the deck of Derfflinger.
Information from ORCA Marine, University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute and SULA Diving January 2019
