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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 759529
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/759529
HY40SE 8007 4833 0096
N58 53.6 W2 53.8
NLO: St Mary's Bay [name: HY 477 005]
Stromness [name: HY 253 090]
Scapa Flow [name centred HY 36 00].
Formerly entered a Site no. 8917, and also as HY40SW 8002 at HY 4333 0097 [N58 53.5667 W2 54].
For adjacent and successor causeway (Churchill Barrier no. 1), see HY40SE 25.
See also HY40SW 8002.
For plan indicating the relative locations and orientations of blockships in this group, see Macdonald 1990, 125.
Horizontal Datum = OGB
Circumstances of Loss Details
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The REDSTONE was a steel single-screw steamship, built in 1918, which was sunk as a blockship. It was later removed.
Source: Wrecks of Scapa Flow.
Surveying Details
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14 March 1972. The site of the wreck is said to be on bearing of 323 degrees, 874.7 metres from Lamb Holm trig station (61), or 58 53 34N, 002 5400w, but the hull has been removed. The seabed is stained with white streaks and rust, along an orientation of NNW/SSE parallel to the barrier and about 305 metres to the west.
Report by Undermarine Operations, 5 March 1972.
Hydrographic Office 1995.
The location assigned to this record remains unverified. Kirk Sound is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The name applies to the most northerly of the sounds on the E side of Scapa Flow, beteween Lamb Holm (to the S) and St Mary's village, Holm, Mainland (to the N). It is centred at HY 484 010, and is spanned by Churchill Barrier No. 1 (HY40SE 25).
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 March 2007.
