Hoy, Lyness, Rinnigill Gas Plant
Building(S) (20th Century), Military Camp (20th Century)
Site Name Hoy, Lyness, Rinnigill Gas Plant
Classification Building(S) (20th Century), Military Camp (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Scapa Flow
Canmore ID 104496
Site Number ND39SW 18
NGR ND 3178 9367
NGR Description Centred ND 3178 9367
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Walls And Flotta
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
ND39SW 18.00 Centred 3178 9367
ND39SW 18.01 ND 31746 93478 Building (domed trainer)
ND39SW 18.02 ND 31912 93726 Building
ND39SW 18.03 ND 31842 93679 Building
ND39SW 18.04 from ND 31779 93770 to ND 31787 93915 Pier
ND39SW 18.05 ND 31721 93718 Huts
An area on the S side of Ore Bay measuring about 400m by 300m within which the Rinnigil Gas Production plant is situated.
Many rows concrete hut bases survive along with several standing buildings. The buildings have been mainly constructed using concrete, brick and brick and concrete. Included amongst the upstanding buildings is a Gunnery training room with of the interior fittings still in situ, two larger buildings and a circular concrete pad close to the shore all interlinked by concrete roadways. The concrete pier is in a deteriorating condition and a floating crane has been hauled on-shore about 100m to the E.
The Gas Plant was used to produce Hyrdogen gas for barrage balloons with the cylinders being transported to the other Islands from the pier.
The whole complex is visible on RAF vertical air photographs (LEU/UK 4, 7026-7027, 17 April 1948), which shows that most of the huts and buildings had been removed by this date.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE, GS) August1997
