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Busk: Kirk Sound, Scapa Flow, Orkney
Craft (20th Century), Steamship (20th Century)
Site Name Busk: Kirk Sound, Scapa Flow, Orkney
Classification Craft (20th Century), Steamship (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) At Mary's Bay; Churchill Causeway; Churchill Barrier No. 1; North Sea; Busk
Canmore ID 102366
Site Number HY40SE 8003
NGR HY 48324 00503
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/102366
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Maritime - Orkney
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
HY40SE 8003 4832 0050
N58 53.35 W2 53.8
NLO: St Mary's Bay [name: HY 477 005]
Stromness [name: HY 253 090]
Scapa Flow [name centred HY 36 00].
Formerly entered as Site no. 8911.
For adjacent and successor causeway (Churchill Barrier no. 1), see HY40SE 25.
For plan indicating the relative locations and orientations of blockships in this group, see Macdonald 1990, 125.
Horizontal Datum = OGB
General water depth = 1
Circumstances of Loss Details
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The steel single-screw steamship BUSK was built in 1906, and sunk as a blockship.
Source: Wrecks of Scapa Flow.
Surveying Details
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14 March 1972. The positon is given as bearing 307 degrees, 381 metres from Lamb Holm trig station (61), or 58 53 21N, 002 53 48Q, but the complete hull has now been lifted.
Report by Undermarine Operations, 5 March 1972.
19 August 1992. The vessel broke up in a gale and is now well dispersed.
Source: Dive Scapa Flow - R Macdonald, 1990.
Hydrographic Office, 1995.
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).
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 March 2007.
Reference (19 April 2012)
UKHO Identifier : 001269
Feature Class : Wreck
State : LIFT
Classification : Unclassified
Position (Lat/long) : 58.88917,-2.89667
Horizontal Datum : ORDNANCE SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN (1936)
WGS84 Position (Lat/long) : 58.88875,-2.89829
WGS84 Origin : 3-D Cartesian Shift (BW)
Position Quality : Unreliable
Depth Quality : Depth unknown
Water Depth : 1
Vertical Datum : Lowest Astronomical Tide
Name : BUSK
Type : BLOCKSHIP
Flag : BRITISH
Tonnage : 367
Tonnage Type : Gross
Date Sunk : ??/??/1940
Contact Description : Entire wreck
Original Sensor : Reported Sinking
Original Detection Year : 1940
Original Source : Other
Circumstances of Loss : **STEEL SINGLE-SCREW SS, BUILT 1906, SUNK AS A BLOCKSHIP. (WKS OF SCAPA FLOW).
Surveying Details : **H2496/72 14.3.72 POSN 585321N, 025348W.
**H2496/72 14.3.72 STATED TO HAVE BEEN 307DEG, 1250FT FROM LAMB HOLM TRIG STN (61), OR 585321N, 025348W, BUT COMPLETE HULL NOW LIFTED. (UNDERMARINE OPERATIONS, 5.3.72).
**19.8.92 BROKE UP IN A GALE AS IS NOW WELL DISPERSED. (DIVE SCAPA FLOW - R. MACDONALD, 1990). NCA.
Charting Comments : POSN FOR FILING ONLY
Date Last Amended : 04/02/2005
