Archaeology Notes

Event ID 769562

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND49NE 8023 4825 9981

N58 52.9 W2 53.8

NLO: Stromness [name: HY 253 090]

Glimps Holm [name: ND 472 991]

Glimpsholm Skerry [name: ND 482 995]

Scapa Flow [name centred HY 36 00].

For adjacent and successor causeway (Churchill Barrier no. 2), see ND49NE 15.

For successor blockship (Elton), see ND49NE 8019.

For other blockships in this group, see HY40SE 8002, ND49NE 8014-21 and ND49NE 8024.

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

CAPE ORTEGAL, sunk 1939, steel single-screw steamer, built 1911 at Glasgow. Registered at Glasgow. Rolled over and broke up during a gale.

Source: D M Ferguson 1984

Hydrographic Office 1995.

(Classified as steel steamship: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 8 September 1939). Cape Ortegal: this vessel was sunk as a blockship in Skerry Sound, but rolled over and broke up in a gale.

Registration: Glasgow. Built 1911. 4896grt. Length: 123m. Beam: 16m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 52.83 W2 53.83).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Skerry Sound is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The name apparently applies to the ill-defined sound leading E from St Mary's Bay {name centred ND 473 002] into Holm Sound [name centred ND 500 992] between Lamb Holm [name: HY 485 003] to the N and Glimps Holm [name: ND 473 992] to the S. It is now closed by Churchill Barrier No. 2 (ND49NE 15: ND 4822 9999 to ND 4785 9952).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 August 2005.

Skerry Sound is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the current edition of the OS (GIS) notes the name around ND 4814 9995, between Glimps Holm and Glimpsholm Skerry.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 March 2007.