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Field Visit
Date May 1979
Event ID 619007
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/619007
Lamb Holm battery, part of the World War II defences of Holm
Sound approach to Scapa Flow, was operational 1941-2 and was run
down after the closing of the Sounds by the Churchill Causeways
in 1943. It had 2 12-pdr guns in small concrete emplacements
with integral overhead protection, concrete magazine below ground
level, single level control position. On the cliffside at 4866
0007 were two positions each with three vertical slits, each
mounting fixed searchlights presumably 16 deg or 30 deg.
[R1],[R2]
The battery and searchlight emplacements survive in good
condition.
Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) May 79.
