Unknown: Scapa Flow, Orkney
Cruiser (20th Century), Obstruction (20th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Scapa Flow, Orkney
Classification Cruiser (20th Century), Obstruction (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Toy Ness; Bremse
Canmore ID 102328
Site Number HY30SE 8001
NGR HY 35384 03915
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/102328
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Maritime - Orkney
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
HY30SE 8001 3618 0430
N58 55.3 W3 6.5
NLO: Stromness [name: HY 253 090]
Scapa Flow [name centred HY 36 00]
Toy Ness [name: HY 354 042].
Formerly entered as HY30SE 8870.
'Salvor's dumping ground; 5.9" gun turret & barbette, wreckage'.
G Ridley 1992.
Quality of fix = PA
Evidence = Divers Report
Horizontal Datum = OGB
General water depth = 10
Surveying Details
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1 November 1982. An obstruction is repotted at 58 55 18N, 003 06 30W. The area is apparently used as a dumping ground by salvors. A complete gun - turret and barbette - is lying on its side. Nearby a small metal compartment and a mast, a winch, and other pieces of scrap metal, lie on sloping seabed in a general depth of 10 metres.
Report by B Winfield, 25 October 1982.
Hydrographic Office 1995.
Reference (19 April 2012)
UKHO Identifier : 001120
Feature Class : Obstn
Obstruction Category : Foul ground
State : LIVE
Classification : Unclassified
Position (Lat/long) : 58.91763,-3.12375
Horizontal Datum : ETRS 1989
WGS84 Position (Lat/long) : 58.91763,-3.12375
WGS84 Origin : Original
Previous Position : 58.92167,-3.10833
Position Quality : Precisely known
Depth Quality : Depth unknown
Water Depth : 10
Vertical Datum : Lowest Astronomical Tide
Name : BREMSE
Type : LIGHT CRUISER
Flag : GERMAN
Length : 140.3
Beam : 13.4
Draught : 5.9
Shadow Height : 2.0
Tonnage : 4400
Tonnage Type : Gross
Date Sunk : 21/09/1919
Contact Description : Notable debris
Original Sensor : Diver Sighting
Last Sensor : Diver Sighting
Original Detection Year : 1982
Last Detection Year : 2007
Original Source : Divers
Last Source : Divers
Circumstances of Loss : **MINELAYING LIGHT CRUISER, BUILT 1916 BY A.G. VULCAN, STETTIN, WITH STEAM TURBINES OF 46,000HP & TWIN SHAFTS. SCUTTLED IN SCAPA FLOW. BOARDED BY A BRITISH NAVAL PARTY WHO ATTEMPTED TO BEACH VESSEL AT TROY NESS. VESSEL CAPSIZED. AFTER MUCH SALVAGE WORK, THE WRECK WAS REFLOATED AND TOWED TO LYNESS IN NOVEMBER 1929, BUT A GUNTURRET AND SUPERSTRUCTURE LEFT ON SEABED. (SIBI)
Surveying Details : **H1310/82/33 1.11.82 FOUL IN 585518N, 030630W [OGB]. AREA APPARENTLY USED AS DUMPING GROUND BY SALVORS. A COMPLETE GUN-TURRET & BARBETTE LYING ON ITS SIDE. NEARBY A SMALL METAL COMPARTMENT & A MAST, A WINCH AND OTHER PIECES OF SCRAP METAL, LIE ON SLOPING SEABED IN GEN DEPTH 10MTRS. (B WINFIELD, 25.10.82). INS AS FOUL. BR STD.
POSITIONS BELOW THIS POINT ARE IN DEGREES, MINUTES AND DECIMALS OF A MINUTE
**SEP 2007/000037443 15.5.07 GUN-TURRET HAS BEEN LIFTED AND IS EXHIBITED AT LYNESS MUSEUM. SUPERSTRUCTURE AND MAST REMAIN IN 5855.058N, 0307.425W [WGD]. MOORING CHAINS EXTEND DOWN THE BEACH TO THE WRECKAGE, WHICH LIES ON A STEEP SLOPE, STANDING 2MTRS HIGH AT A MAXIMUM GEN DEPTH 14MTRS. (K HEATH, TELECON 19.4.07) AMEND TO FOUL IN REVISED POSN. BR STD.
**7.10.10 NOT LOCATED BY M/B. (FATHOMS LTD, POST SDC BATHY REPROCESSING). NCA.
General Comments : HEIGHT FROM DIVER REPORT
Chart Symbol : F
Date Last Amended : 15/05/2007
Date Position Last Amended : 15/05/2007
Project (15 January 2019)
The High Seas Fleet Salvage Sites Phase 2 project was undertaken by ORCA Marine, University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) Archaeology Institute and SULA Diving on behalf of Historic Environment Scotland (HES) as a second phase of a project to investigate the salvages sites of the German High Seas Fleet in Scapa flow, Orkney. The final project report details the results of survey work.
The aim of the project was to determine what remains of the many vessels of the German High Seas Fleet that were salvaged in the years that followed their scuttling in June 1919. Phase 1, undertaken over the winter of 2016/17, involved a side scan sonar survey of the main anchorages and other areas thought to have been involved in the salvage process. A process of ground-truthing the sonar contacts started in Phase 1 was completed in this Phase 2 project. Phase 2 ground-truthing surveys focussed on the remaining primary salvage sites associated with the SMS Moltke; SMS Printzregent Luitpold;SMS Derfflinger;SMS Friedrich der Grosse; SMS Kaiserin; SMS Kaiser; SMS König Albert;SMS Grosser Kurfürst; and miscellaneous contacts, including a German diesel pinnace discovered in 2017, SMS Bremse, SMS S36, SMS B109 and SMS V78.
Sula Diving, ORCA Marine and University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, 15 January 2019
