Orkney Smr Note

Date 1999

Event ID 621173

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/621173

Built in 1943 to strengthen the anti-motor-torpedo boat defences of Stromness, the layout of the Graemsay Battery remains almost intact. Most of the structures survive only as far as their footings, like the battery camp within the perimeter wall of the lighthouse. However the unusual style of gun emplacement (no overhead cover) and the unique twin searchlight structures survive intact along with the direction tower and the magazine. The engine room to the S of the main structures is possibly built on the site of St.Colm's Chapel, OR1910.

Information from Orkney SMR, 1999