Orkney Smr Note

Event ID 621102

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

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A series of WWI and WWII gun emplacements and magazines with associated camp site situated on the N side of Hoy Sound guarding the western entrance to Scapa Flow. In WWII 6 inch guns were housed in two massive emplacements with improvised roofs of concrete carried on a network of steel beams to protect the gunners from air attack. Behind them stand a 2 storey observation tower used to control all the western defences of the Flow. Along the shore are the remains of slightly later twin 6-pounder battery and searchlight emplacements.

Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]