Archaeology Notes

Event ID 760043

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY40SE 8003 4832 0050

N58 53.35 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 as Site no. 8911.

For adjacent and successor causeway (Churchill Barrier no. 1), see HY40SE 25.

For plan indicating the relative locations and orientations of blockships in this group, see Macdonald 1990, 125.

Horizontal Datum = OGB

General water depth = 1

Circumstances of Loss Details

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The steel single-screw steamship BUSK was built in 1906, and sunk as a blockship.

Source: Wrecks of Scapa Flow.

Surveying Details

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14 March 1972. The positon is given as bearing 307 degrees, 381 metres from Lamb Holm trig station (61), or 58 53 21N, 002 53 48Q, but the complete hull has now been lifted.

Report by Undermarine Operations, 5 March 1972.

19 August 1992. The vessel broke up in a gale and is now well dispersed.

Source: Dive Scapa Flow - R Macdonald, 1990.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

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.