Archaeology Notes

Event ID 763769

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND49NE 8022 4812 9518

N58 50.4833 W2 53.9333

NLO: Water Sound [name centred ND 460 950]

Stromness [name: HY 253 090]

Scapa Flow [name centred HY 36 00].

Formerly entered as Site no. 8955.

For adjacent (and successor) Churchill Barrier No. 4, see ND49NE 17.

For other blockships in this group, see ND49NE 8002-9, and ND49SE 8001.

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

Horizontal Datum = OGB

General water depth = 2

Circumstances of Loss Details

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The twin screw steel motor tanker JUANITA, built in 1918, was sunk as a blockship to the NE of the barrier in 1940. Built in Sunderland, registered London.

Sources: Ferguson 1985; MacDonald 1990

Surveying Details

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14 March 1972. A position of 58 50 29N, 002 53 56W is given, or bearing 179 degrees, or 548 metres from the spot height (107) on Burray. A 10.6 metre section of hull remains with decking. The fittings have been removed.

Report by Undermarine Operations, 5 March 1972.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

Water Sound is the most southerly of the four sounds that pierce the Eastern side of Scapa Flow. It formerly separated the islands of Burray (to the N) and South Ronaldsay (to the S), but is now crossed by Churchill Barrier No. 4 (ND49NE 17), which blocks it near the E (North Sea) end.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 April 2007.