Unknown: Swanbister Bay, Scapa Flow, Orkney
Craft (20th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Swanbister Bay, Scapa Flow, Orkney
Classification Craft (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Bring Deeps; Sms Bremse
Canmore ID 228376
Site Number HY30SE 8007
NGR HY 3570 0422
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/228376
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Maritime - Orkney
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
HY30SE 8007 3570 0422
N58 55.25 W3 7.00
NLO: Toy Ness [name: HY 354 042]
Swanbister Bay [name centred HY 360 048]
Stromness [name: HY 253 090]
Scapa Flow [name centred HY 36 00].
See also HY30SE 8005.
Possibly part of SMS Bremse (HY30SE 8005).
R and B Larn 1998.
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
