John Rae the new pilot boat for Scapa Flow .kirkwall orkney islands scotland
new pilot arrives by sea on May 28th 2010. last leg was from stavanger to scapa flow
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west pilot station pentland firth scapa flow orkney islands kirkwall
nice day to take in a ship to scapa flow
HMS Ark Royal departs Scapa Flow in Orkney
HMS ark royal on it way out of Scapa Flow and entering the Pentland Firth after a short stay in Orkney
Scapa Flow Visitor Centre and Museum
The Scapa Flow Visitor Centre and Museum explores the importance of Scapa Flow as a base for the British fleet throughout history, concentrating on its role during two world wars.
It's centred around the former fuel oil pumping station at Lyness Naval Base, (HMS Proserpine) - including one of the tanks that once held 12,000 tons of fuel oil for the fleet, which now houses large exhibits.
Highlights include a collection of large military vehicles, cranes and artillery, audio recordings of service personnel and locals speaking about wartime, and relics from wrecks including HMS Hampshire and HMS Royal Oak.
There are plenty of children's activities as well as a gift shop and cafe.
The Museum is a two minute walk from Lyness pier. There's a 2 hour guided walk around the remains of the former Lyness Naval Base leaves from the museum at 11:00 each Tuesday (from early April onwards).
The museum is open March – October (Sunday opening during the period May-September) and admission is free. The popular Pumphouse Cafe is usually open from Easter – October.
For full opening times, visit
Old Photographs Scapa Flow Orkney Islands Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Scapa Flow, meaning bay of the long isthmus, a body of water in the Orkney Islands. It is sheltered by the islands of Mainland, Graemsay, Burray, South Ronaldsay and Hoy. Scapa Flow had been used many times for exercises in the years before World War I , and when the time came for the British fleet to move to a northern station, Scapa Flow was chosen for the main base of the British Grand Fleet, even though it was also unfortified. Following the German defeat in World War I, 74 ships of the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet were interned in Gutter Sound at Scapa Flow pending a decision on their future in the peace Treaty of Versailles. On 21 June 1919, after nine months of waiting, Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter, the German officer in command at Scapa Flow, made the decision to scuttle the fleet because the negotiation period for the treaty had lapsed with no word of a settlement. After waiting for the bulk of the British fleet to leave on exercises, he gave the order to scuttle the ships to prevent their falling into British hands. The Royal Navy made desperate efforts to board the ships to prevent the sinkings, but the German crews had spent the idle months preparing for the order. The British did eventually manage to beach the battleship Baden, the light cruisers Nürnberg, and Frankfurt together with 18 destroyers, but the remaining 52 ships, the vast bulk of the High Seas Fleet, were sunk without loss of life. Nine German sailors died when British forces opened fire as they attempted to scuttle their ship, reputedly the last casualties of World War I. At least seven of the scuttled German ships, and a number of sunken British ships, can be visited by scuba divers. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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Saint Magnus Cathedral
Kirkwall VisitScotland iCentre
The Orkney Museum
Highland Park Distillery
Scapa Flow
The Earl's Palace
Orkney Wireless Museum
The Bishop's Palace
Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn
Scapa Distillery
Dive on Martlet Wreckage, Kirkwall, Orkney.
The Champ arrives in Kirkwall
Charlie, the Champ, has survived the long trip to the Orkneys and seems happy with this new found park for his walks
Sailing in Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands
A spring day out sailing past the Barrel of Butter, Scapa Flow
1,500 Year Old CRUISING GROUNDS! - The Scapa Flow in Orkney (MJ Sailing - Ep 136)
Have we just stumbled upon one of the world's oldest cruising grounds? The Vikings liked to use it to 'winter over', more than 1,500 years ago!
Orkney Island has such a large Neolithic history, that with our second chance to visit this island, we want to explore as much of it as possible. Scooting around on our handy new bikes, we were able to see the Scapa Flow, one of the largest protected harbors in the world, and a favorite of Vikings in millenia past.
Further inland, we visited places like the Maeshowe Chamber Carin, and Ring of Brodgar, all built around 2,500 BC, as well as the Stones of Stenness. Which are believed to be the oldest stone henge in the British Isles.
Once we'r able to see all we can by land, we bring Elements over to a protected anchorage next to a long sandy beach, where the fall weather changes from storms to sun just long enough for us to bring Georgie out for an afternoon at the beach.
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Scapaflow - Way to forgive
ScapaFlow - Way to forgive
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Quickie on a beautiful Orkney morning in Scapa flow
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Tour WW 2 Coastal Defense Batteries of Scapa Flow, Orkney
A strategically important natural harbor in the Orkney Islands, Scapa Flow served as Britain's main fleet anchorage during World Wars I and II. It held Jellicoe's Grand Fleet from 1914-18, and it was from here that it sailed out to do battle with the Germans at Jutland in 1916. In 1914 the British began building a comprehensive defensive network by fortifying the entrances to Scapa Flow and then extending these defenses to cover most of Orkney. These static defenses were augmented with boom nets, naval patrols and minefields, creating the largest fortified naval base in the world.
With the outbreak of the Second World War, Scapa Flow again proved ideally situated to counter the German naval threat and served as the base for Britain's Home Fleet. Despite constant attacks from aircraft and U-boats, one of which managed to sink the British battleship Royal Oak, the defenses of Scapa Flow were again augmented and improved. By 1940, Orkney had become an island fortress, the largest integrated defensive network of its kind in Europe, manned by as many as 50,000 Commonwealth troops.
The video is a short tour of the remnants of the following coastal defenses:
U-47 Path into Scapa Flow, Hoxa Head and Balfour Gun Batteries, Yasby AA Gun Emplacement, and RAF Skeabrae.
Scapa Flow
Scapa Flow is a body of water in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, sheltered by the islands of Mainland, Graemsay, Burray, South Ronaldsay and Hoy. The Harbour Authority area of Scapa Flow in Orkney has been measured as part of a wider consultation in ballast water management in 2013, and it has been accurately calculated that Scapa Flow is 324.5 square kilometres in area and that this area contains just under 1 billion cubic metres of water. This statistic makes Scapa Flow the second largest natural harbour in the World after Sydney Harbour, Australia. Scapa Flow is one of Britain's most historic stretches of water - located within the Orkney Islands, off the northeast coast of Scotland. Its sheltered waters have been used by ships since prehistory and it has played an important role in travel, trade and conflict throughout the centuries - especially during both World Wars. It is currently a world famous diving location with the wrecks of the scuttled German Fleet offering unique diving challenges. Scapa Flow is also a major oil port and served the Flotta Oil Terminal and is a prime location of ship-to-ship transfers of crude oil product and liquefied natural gas. The world’s first ship to ship transfer of LNG took place in Scapa Flow in 2007.
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Kirkwall - UK - Scotland by Esther Borbas
It was amazingly green over there.But hardly any trees...instead lots of rocks and cows ;).Enjoy it!
The Orkney Kirkwall Islands
Orkney is an archipelago in northern Scotland and Kirkwall is the largest town and capital of Orkney, off the coast of northern mainland Scotland.
Bettys reading room Orkney Islands Scotland
This video is about Bettys reading room on the mainland of the Orkneys north of Scotland tingwall
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Success At Scapa Flow Scapa Flow Reel (1924)
Identical duplicate of Pathe Gazette story - other version and rest of G 1099 is on PM0346.
Scapa Flow, Orkney, Scotland.
Title: SUCCESS! First of Germany's scuttles fleet raised by Messers. Cox & Danks, after months of incessant toil.
M/S of the deck of a salvage vessel, men turn the enormous handles on a row of winches. High angled shot of two salvage vessels moored parallel to each other, on both sides cranes and winches work to lift the sunken battleships / submarines from the seabed.
Intertitle: After 5 years on the Ocean bed.
Various M/Ss on the surfaced wreck, mangled and covered in seaweed, men work to clean the wreck up. Panning shot of a wreck moored next to the salvage vessel - looks like a German U-boat.
Note: this item was originally part of Scapa Flow Reel - a collection of stories about the salvaging of World War One vessels.
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Scapa Flow - WWI German ship wrecks - Orkney Islands, Scotland
Scapa Flow, a huge natural harbour in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, is the resting place of the remaining wrecks of the ships the WWI German High Seas Fleet, which was interned in Scapa Flow during the WW1 Armistice negotiations. The ships were deliberately scuttled by the German commander. While many of the wrecks were salvaged, a number remain, and these have become major diving attractions and must-do dives for any serious wreck diver. These include the battleships SMS Mark Graf and SMS Kronprinz Wilhelm, and the cruisers SMS Brummer and SMS Koln.
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WWII U.S. Sailors, Kirkwall, Orkney Island (full)
Freely downloadable at the Internet Archive, where I first uploaded it. Extracted from United States Naval Photographic Center film #1635. National Archives description 21) MS to MCU Executive officer inspecting crew dressed in dress blue Able.22) MS Two sailors walking down city street.23) MS Two sailors and two English Armed Service women.24) MS Sailors walking down street in Kirkwall, Orkney Island. (SV)25) MS Sailors standing by building, admiring architecture of structure.26) MS Sailors in park.27) MS Sailors and civilians on street; sailors wearing drees blue Able and flat hats.28) MS Sailors passing building, Bank of Scotland.29) MS Sailors and Britisn Service women looking at baby carriage. National Archives Identifier: 76113