South Ronaldsay, St Margaret's Hope, Royal Naval Mining Base
Submarine Mining Station (Second World War), Submarine Mining Station (First World War)
Site Name South Ronaldsay, St Margaret's Hope, Royal Naval Mining Base
Classification Submarine Mining Station (Second World War), Submarine Mining Station (First World War)
Alternative Name(s) Scapa Flow
Canmore ID 202239
Site Number ND49SW 37
NGR ND 4452 9425
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/202239
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish South Ronaldsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
ND49SW 37.00 4452 9425
ND49SW 37.01 ND 444 943 Ammunition storage huts
A large brick built building at the W end of the pier now in commercial use. Used by the Royal Navy during World War Two in the construction and maintainance of the minefield in Hoxa Sound.
Information from Defence of Britain Project form, Mr Esson, 1999.
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.
Note (12 November 2013)
Stell (2010) records that the Submarine Mining Station at St Margret's Hope was constructed in the First World War formed the headquarters of the submarine mining operations at Scapa Flow in both World Wars. It also served as the boom defences depot. A photograph taken in c.1919 shows the buildings grouped on the hillside above the pier.
The brick building on the pier appears to be of Second World War date.
Redevelopment of the pier has probaly remove some of the traces of the military buildings at this site. Recent vertical aerial photograph (next perspective 25cm orthorectified aerial imagary) show possible building footings to the W and uphill from the pier.
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 12 November 2013.
