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.
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The Scapa Flow Museum
This museum is inside an old oil tank.
NAE PLANS - Lyness Oil Tank, Hoy
Thank you to Scapa Flow Visitor Centre & Museum for allowing Nae Plans to Film in their disused World War II Brittish Navy oil tank. And thanks for the sailor uniforms!
Pianist/vocalist Hamish Napier (Back of The Moon, Man’s Ruin) and fiddler Adam Sutherland(Treacherous Orchestra, Session A9, Croft No. 5) join forces in a new and exciting project called ‘Nae Plans‘.
Following the release of an album that was strictly unrehearsed (the pair barred any discussion between themselves about what tunes they would play or how they would arrange them until the 'record' button was pressed), the duo are taking 'Nae Plans' on the road with a series of unplanned gigs.
They aim to recreate a crucial part of Scotland's music culture, the informal session with its open-endedness and spontaneity. Traditional songs and tunes, contemporary numbers, their own compositions and off the cuff improvisation - anything can - and probably will - happen!
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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.
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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