Archaeology Notes

Event ID 760234

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY40SE 8005 4812 0106

N58 53.65 W2 54.0167

NLO: St Mary's Bay [name: HY 477 005]

Lamb Holm [name: HY 485 003]

Scapa Flow [name centred HY 36 00].

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

Formerly entered as Site no. 8915.

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

Horizontal Datum = UND

Circumstances of Loss Details

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The steel single-screw steamship SORIANO was built in 1917 and sunk as a blockship. The wreck 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 a bearing of 327 degrees, 975 metres from Lamb Holm trig station (61), or 58 53 39N, 002 54 01W. However, the wreck no longer exists. The hull has been removed. The seabed is stained with rust and white streaks on a bearing of 112/293 degrees and parallel to the barrier. There is also an unknown vessel, which used to lie about 150 metres to the west and parallel to the barrier(or bearing 334 degrees, 900 metres from trig station (61)). This has also been lifted and the site is in the same state the SORIANO's.

Report by Undermarine Operations, 5 March 1972.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

(Classified as steel steamship: no cargo specified, but former names cited as Evansville, Lake Tahoe and S.N.A.4, and date of loss as 15 March 1939). Seriano: this vessel was scuttled as a blockship, removed and scrapped.

Registration: British. Built 1917. 3543grt. Length: 113m. Beam: 13m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 53.65 W2 54.02).

I G Whittaker 1998.

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).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 March 2007.