World War I – German Fleet Surrender and Scuttle Panel from temporary exhibition at the Scapa Flow Museum. The text, with extra images, are featured in this blog. As part of the terms of the Armistice that brought fighting to an end in 1918, Germany had to surrender most of its Fleet. It was interned […]
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World War I – Salvage and Diving Panel from temporary exhibition at the Scapa Flow Museum. The text, with extra images, are featured in this blog. Between the wars the sunken German Fleet was salvaged by the firms Cox & Danks and Metal Industries Ltd., using compressed air to lift the wrecks. After World War
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Between Islands Project, Film 4 (Shetland) The Fair Isle Jumper, Shetland Museum [Alex MacDonald, coordinator, Between Islands] For this week’s Between Islands project online we head to Shetland, and the first in a series of heritage films made by Keiba Clubb. Featuring an interview with Maggie Ann Nicholson, it focuses on the subject of Fair
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World War II – Development of the Lyness Royal Naval Base Panel from temporary exhibition at the Scapa Flow Museum. The text, with extra images, are featured in this blog. In 1936 Lyness Naval Base was being prepared for another war. A larger fuel oil depot was required, as well as more wharfage and improved
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World War II – Defending Scapa Flow Panel from temporary exhibition at the Scapa Flow Museum. The text, with extra images, are featured in this blog. Most of the defences built during WW1 had been dismantled long before the outbreak of WW2, leaving Lyness vulnerable to attack. With the return of the Home Fleet, protection
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World War II – HMS Royal Oak Panel from temporary exhibition at the Scapa Flow Museum. The text, with extra images, are featured in this blog. HMS Royal Oak. The Royal Naval base at Scapa Flow was thought to be impregnable to submarine attack but German reconnaissance surveys identified a navigable channel into Scapa Flow
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World War II – Building the Barriers Panel from temporary exhibition at the Scapa Flow Museum. The text, with extra images, are featured in this blog. Permanently blocking the entrances to Scapa Flow had been suggested in 1912, but it was the loss of HMS Royal Oak in 1939 that prompted action. Winston Churchill, then
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World War II – Fleet in Action Panel from temporary exhibition at the Scapa Flow Museum. The text, with extra images, are featured in this blog. Arctic Convoys Russian destroyer, Kola Inlet, Russia, February 1944. Scapa Flow’s role as a major naval base was restored during WW2. As the Royal Navy’s main fleet anchorage it
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The Life and Times of Orkney artist Jim Baikie Author: Tom Muir, Engagement and Exhibitions Officer Early Life James George Baikie was born at Boathouse, Crockness, North Walls, Hoy on 28th February 1940. His parents were Vic and Nettie Baikie. Vic is usually recorded as a blacksmith, but he was mostly employed as a highly skilled
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Between Islands Project, Film 3 (Western Isles) Gannet by Archibald Thorburn, 1885 Author: Alex MacDonald, coordinator, Between Islands The third in our series of short films by film maker Zoe Paterson Macinnes is now available to view. Entitled “Tradition”, it is on the subject of the “guga hunt”, or bird harvesting trip made annually by the
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