Unknown: Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow, Orkney

ND39NW 8025 centred 3202 9697

N58 51.3 W3 10.7

NLO: Gutter Sound [name centred ND 316 968]

Stromness [name: HY 253 090]

Scapa Flow [name centred HY 36 00].

Formerly entered as ND39NW 8800.

Horizontal Datum = OGB

General water depth = 13

Surveying Details

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29 January 1925. An area of underwater obstructions making a foul anchorage remains at 58 51 18N, 003 10 42W after the removal of 5 German destroyers.

Report by Kings Harbour Master, Scapa Flow.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

Material reported under RoW amnesty (2001):

A262 1 china plate (7ins diameter, marked with navy anchor), 1 pottery jar (6ins diameter), 3 glass bottles (all aged between 1900 and 1950), 6 small shell cases (1.5ins diameter)

A 440 1 brass winding handle.

[These items were found at an indeterminate location or locations on the seabed of Gutter Sound, and are not associated with any specific possibly from wreck: their citation within this record is essentially arbitrary).

NMRS, MS/829/33.

Material reported under RoW amnesty (2001):

A534 earthernware jar: from seabed

A690 miscellaneous crockery

A900 miscellanerous objects, including smlla bettles [for] medecines and cosmetics, hand-applied lip bottle, small milk jug and spent shell case.

[Qualifications as above: noted as found 'off Lyness'].

NMRS, MS/829/34.

Material reported under RoW amnesty (2001):

A1093 Milk jug, bowls, various bottles, cage lamp, cups and saucers, 1 P and O plate, 1 porthole, 1 light fitting, 1 brass plaque: from seabed.

[Qualifications as above: noted as found 'off Lyness'].

A1852 2 plates, 1 cup, 1 saucer: from seabed

A1984 broken pottery (including broken bowl), 2 forks, 1 green wine bottle, 1 brown beer bottle, 1 square green bottle: from seabed

A2082 1 phosphor bronze bearing block, 1 brass pulley sheave, 1 brass bracket, 1 brass oil tap, 1 glass bottle (Kutnow), various brass washers, nuts and screws: from seabed. [Cited as 'rummage site off Lyness anchorage': record received incomplete]

A2134 1 ceramic white pot and lid (no marks), 1 broken base of ceramic jar, 1 brass/glass thermometer, 1 brass step plate

A2434 1 torch, 1 shellcase, 15 bottles, 1 rowlock: from seabed

A2443 4 bottles, 1 ceramic pot: from seabed

A3015 4 bottles: from seabed 'off Lyness pier'

A4263 various bottles, 1 turbine blade, 1 switch box: from seabed.

NMRS, MS/829/35.