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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 852131
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/852131
ND49NE 8014 4736 9962
N58 52.8667 W2 54
NLO: Glimps Holm [name: ND 472 991]
Glimpsholm Skerry [name: ND 482 995]
Stromness [name: HY 253 090]
Scapa Flow [name centred HY 36 00].
Formerly entered as Site no. 8903 and classified as Floating Crane.
For adjacent and successor causeway (Churchill Barrier No. 2), see ND49NE 15.
For other blockships in this group, see HY40SE 8002, ND49NE 8015-21 and ND49NE 8023-4.
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 AC6, an ex Metal Industries Ltd barge, was sunk as a blockship.
Source: Ferguson 1985
Surveying Details
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9 July 1928. The wreck's position is given as 58 52 54N, 002 54 08W [the ARGYLL is in the same position].
14 March 1972. A position of 58 52 52N, 002 54 00W, or bearing 217.5 degrees, 838 metres from Lamb Holm trig stn (61). This is a very small wreck and very little remains only a large quantity of debris, plates and girders covered with weed.
Report by Undermarine Operations 5 March 1972.
27 August 1992. The wreck is dispersed amongst the remains of several other blockships.
Source: Dive Scapa Flow.
Hydrographic Office, 1995.
(Classified as crane barge: date of loss cited as 4 April 1941). AC 6: this vessel was sunk as a blockship in Skerry Sound.
Registration: British.
(location of loss cited as N58 52.87 W2 54.03).
I G Whittaker 1998.
(Noted under separate headings, as F/C pontoon and AC 6).
G Ridley 1992; L Wood 2000.
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.
