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Redstone: Kirk Sound, Scapa Flow, Orkney
Craft (20th Century), Steamship (20th Century)
Site Name Redstone: Kirk Sound, Scapa Flow, Orkney
Classification Craft (20th Century), Steamship (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Margari; Orbe; Wye Crag; War Crag; Churchill Barrier No.1; Churchill Causeway; North Sea; Redstone; Redstone (Ex. Margari, ...)
Canmore ID 119018
Site Number HY40SE 8007
NGR HY 48137 00908
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/119018
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Maritime - Orkney
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
HY40SE 8007 4833 0096
N58 53.6 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 a Site no. 8917, and also as HY40SW 8002 at HY 4333 0097 [N58 53.5667 W2 54].
For adjacent and successor causeway (Churchill Barrier no. 1), see HY40SE 25.
See also HY40SW 8002.
For plan indicating the relative locations and orientations of blockships in this group, see Macdonald 1990, 125.
Horizontal Datum = OGB
Circumstances of Loss Details
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The REDSTONE was a steel single-screw steamship, built in 1918, which was sunk as a blockship. It was later removed.
Source: Wrecks of Scapa Flow.
Surveying Details
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14 March 1972. The site of the wreck is said to be on bearing of 323 degrees, 874.7 metres from Lamb Holm trig station (61), or 58 53 34N, 002 5400w, but the hull has been removed. The seabed is stained with white streaks and rust, along an orientation of NNW/SSE parallel to the barrier and about 305 metres to the west.
Report by Undermarine Operations, 5 March 1972.
Hydrographic Office 1995.
The location assigned to this record remains unverified. 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.
Evidence Of Loss (1995)
Horizontal Datum = OGB
Circumstances of Loss Details
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The REDSTONE was a steel single-screw steamship, built in 1918, which was sunk as a blockship. It was later removed.
Source: Wrecks of Scapa Flow.
Surveying Details
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14 March 1972. The site of the wreck is said to be on bearing of 323 degrees, 874.7 metres from Lamb Holm trig station (61), or 58 53 34N, 002 5400w, but the hull has been removed. The seabed is stained with white streaks and rust, along an orientation of NNW/SSE parallel to the barrier and about 305 metres to the west.
Report by Undermarine Operations, 5 March 1972.
Hydrographic Office 1995.
Named Location (Nlo) (1 July 1997)
NLO: St Mary's Bay [name: HY 477 005]
Stromness [name: HY 253 090]
Scapa Flow [name centred HY 36 00].
Formerly entered as HY40SE 8917, and also as HY40SW 8002 at HY 4333 0097 [N58 53.5667 W2 54].
For adjacent and successor causeway (Churchill Barrier no. 1), see HY40SE 25.
See also HY40SW 8002.
For plan indicating the relative locations and orientations of blockships in this group, see Macdonald 1990, 125.
Note (21 March 2007)
The location assigned to this record remains unverified. 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 (2011)
Whittaker ID : 216
Name : REDSTONE (EX. MARGARI, ...)
Latitude : 585334
Longitude : 25400
Date Built : 1918
Registration : LONDON
Type : SS (STEEL)
Tonnage : 3110
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 101
Beam : 14
Draught : 7m
Position : All Gone
Loss Day : 2
Loss Month : 5
Loss Year : 1940
Comment : Scuttled as blockship.
Reference (19 April 2012)
UKHO Identifier : 001274
Feature Class : Wreck
State : DEAD
Classification : Unclassified
Position (Lat/long) : 58.89278,-2.90000
Horizontal Datum : ORDNANCE SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN (1936)
WGS84 Position (Lat/long) : 58.89236,-2.90162
WGS84 Origin : 3-D Cartesian Shift (BW)
Position Quality : Unreliable
Depth Quality : Depth unknown
Water Depth : 8
Vertical Datum : Lowest Astronomical Tide
Name : REDSTONE
Type : BLOCKSHIP
Flag : BRITISH
Tonnage : 3110
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 1918, WAS SUNK AS A BLOCKSHIP. LATER REMOVED. (WKS OF SCAPA FLOW).
Surveying Details : **H2496/72 14.3.72 SITE OF WK SAID TO BE 323DEG, 2780FT FROM LAMB HOLM TRIG STN (61), OR 585334N, 025400W, BUT WK NO LONGER THERE. HULL HAS BEEN REMOVED. SEABED STAINED WITH WHITE STREAKS AND RUST, NNW/SSE PARALLEL TO BARRIER AND ABOUT 100OFT TO W. (UNDERMARINE OPERATIONS, 5.3.72). NCA.
Charting Comments : POSN FOR FILING ONLY
Date Last Amended : 09/02/2005
