Archaeology Notes

Event ID 760566

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY40SE 8001 4823 0117

N58 53.4 W2 53.9

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. 8707 and also (in error) as Lake Nuechatte.

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

Circumstances of Loss Details

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The LAKE NEUCHATTE was a steel single-screw ss, built in 1907, and sunk as a blockship. It was salvaged by Metal Industries Ltd.

Source: Wrecks of Scapa Flow

Surveying Details

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14 March 1972. The wreck's position is given as 58 53 24N, 002 53 54W.

14 March 1972. The wreck is stated to have been on a bearing of 311 degrees, 548 metres from Lamb Holm trig station (61), but the complete hull has now been lifted.

Report by Undermarine Operations, 5 March 1972.

LAKE NEUCHATEL (ex RENFREW, CLAVERESK, HOUSTONE, MARI, ULVERSMEAD) sunk 1939, 3859gt, steel single-screw steamer, built 1907 Sunderland. Registered London. Salvaged 1948 by Metal Industries Ltd.

Source: Ferguson 1984

Hydrographic Office 1995.

(Classified as steel steamship: no cargo specified, but former names cited as Renfrew and Claveresk, and date of loss as 21 October 1939). Lake Neuchatel: this vessel was scuttled as a blockship, but was removed for scrap in 1948.

Registration: British. 3859 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N58 53.40 W2 53.90).

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.