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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 853496
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/853496
HY40SE 8004 4829 0069
N58 53.45 W2 53.8333
NLO: St Mary's Bay [name: HY 477 005]
Lamb Holm [name: HY 485 003]
Glimps Holm [name: ND 472 991]
Glimpsholm Skerry [name: ND 482 995]
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. 8913.
Formerly entered in error as Mineh and located in Skerry Sound.
For adjacent and successor causeway (Churchill Barrier no. 1), see HY40SE 25.
Horizontal Datum = OGB
Circumstances of Loss Details
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The iron single-screw steamship MINEH was built in 1876 and sunk as a blockship. It was later removed.
Source: Wrecks of Scapa Flow.
Surveying Details
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Two portions of the wreck lie to the NW of Lamb Holm.
(authority not stated)
18 October 1923. The northern portion, lying on an orientation of 135/315 degrees, is in a postion bearing 081.5 degreess, 1074 metres from Skaildaquay Point. The southern portion, with a mast, is lying on an orientation of 087/267 degrees. Its position is given as bearing 083.5 degrees, 1148 metres from Skaildaquay Point.
Report by HMS BEAUFORT.
14 March 1972. The wreck is stated to have been at 58 53 27N, 002 53 59W, or bearing 310 degrees, 609 metres from Lamb Holm trig station (61). However the entire hull has been removed.
Report by Undermarine Operations, 5 March 1972.
Hydrographic Office, 1995.
(Classified as iron steamship: no cargo specified, but former name cited as Alsatia, and date of loss as 27 February 1915). Minieh: this vessel was scuttled as a blockship. All gone and broken up.
Registration: London. Built 1876. 2890grt. Length: 109m. Beam: 10m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 53.45W2 53.83).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Length: 357 ft (108.8m): date of sinking 27 February 1915.
'Ballasted. Broken and twisted. Will probably break in half.' (Report dated 28 June 1915 and accompanying panoramic sketch dated 8 December 1915).
The accompanying panoramic drawing (of Kirk Sound, looking E from St Mary's Pier) depicts only two masts projecting above water; their converging inclination indicates that the vessel has suffered (at least) severe distortion.
The accompanying map depicts the vessel as lying in two pieces, with bows towards the SE, and well to the S of the centre of the sound. It is the most southerly blockship of the group, but still lies some way NW of the shore of Lamb Holm.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 January 2004.
PRO [Kew] ADM116/2073A: dated 17 December 1919.
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).
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.
