Pricing Change
New pricing for orders of material from this site will come into place shortly. Charges for supply of digital images, digitisation on demand, prints and licensing will be altered.
Invergordon, Royal Navy Port Fuel Depot
Oil Storage Tank(S) (Second World War), Oil Storage Tank(S) (First World War)
Site Name Invergordon, Royal Navy Port Fuel Depot
Classification Oil Storage Tank(S) (Second World War), Oil Storage Tank(S) (First World War)
Alternative Name(s) Cromarty Firth; Firth Of Cromarty
Canmore ID 174883
Site Number NH76NW 107
NGR NH 7100 6885
NGR Description Centred NH 7100 6885
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/174883
- Council Highland
- Parish Rosskeen
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
External Reference (2000)
A group of oil tanks and pumping houses with many other buildings situated to the S of the railway, E of the railway station (NH76NW 13). All are associated with the Royal Navy port facilities at Invergordon (NH76NW 64).
J Guy 2000; NMRS MS 810/10, Vol.2, 66; Vol.3, 42
Project (March 2013 - September 2013)
A project to characterise the quantity and quality of the Scottish resource of known surviving remains of the First World War. Carried out in partnership between Historic Scotland and RCAHMS.
Field Visit (October 2016)
HES made a photographic record of this site to enhance the National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) holdings on this complex, as part of its industrial and threatened buildings survey programme (October 2016).
Information from M McDonald, Survey and Recording Section, Heritage Directorate, HES, October 2016.
Note
NH76NW 107 centred 7100 6885
The Oil tanks, pumping houses and the surrounding ditches and earth banks are visible on RAF vertical air photographs (CPE/Scot/UK184, 5287-5288, flown 9 October 1946).
Information from RCAHMS (DE), October 2004.
