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Scapa Flow (/ ˈ s k ɑː p ə, ˈ s k æ p ə /; from Old Norse Skalpaflói 'bay of the long isthmus') [1] is a body of water in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, sheltered by the islands of Mainland, Graemsay, Burray, [2] South Ronaldsay and Hoy. Its sheltered waters have played an important role in travel, trade and conflict throughout the ...
16 wounded. On 21 June 1919, shortly after the end of the First World War, the Imperial German Navy 's High Seas Fleet was scuttled by its sailors while held off the harbour of the British Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow, in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. The fleet was interned there under the terms of the Armistice of 11 November 1918 while ...
Gutter Sound is a sound in the Orkney archipelago, Scotland, part of Scapa Flow. It lies to the west of the main harbour between the internal islands of Cava and Fara, and the large outer island of Hoy. Gutter Sound was one of the sites of the scuttling of the interned Imperial German High Seas Fleet in 1919, and the scene of a major salvage ...
Category. : Shipwrecks in Scapa Flow. Shipwrecks within the fleet basin of Scapa Flow in Orkney, north of mainland Scotland. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shipwrecks in Scapa Flow.
Shipwrecks in Scapa Flow (3 C) Pages in category "Scapa Flow" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
King Orry was a ship, built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead who also supplied her engines and boilers, at a cost of £96,000. She had a registered tonnage of 1,600 GRT; length 313 ft (95.4 m); a beam of 43 ft (13.1 m); depth 16'11" and with a design speed of 21 knots. [citation needed] King Orry had accommodation for 1,600 passengers, and a crew ...
Location. The Churchill Barriers are four causeways in the Orkney islands [1] with a total length of 2.3 kilometres (1.4 mi). They link the Orkney Mainland in the north to the island of South Ronaldsay via Burray [2] and the two smaller islands of Lamb Holm and Glimps Holm. The barriers were built between May 1940 and September 1944, primarily ...
Scapa Flow Museum is a war museum in Lyness on the Island of Hoy, Orkney, Scotland. Housed within a refurbished Romney hut and oil fuel pump house at the former Lyness royal naval base HMS Proserpine, [1] the museum charts the history of Orkney's involvement in World War I and World War II. The museum is named after the body of water to the ...