Between Islands Project: Latest Updates Alex MacDonald, coordinator of the Between Islands Project writes: There are lots of bits and pieces to report on Between Islands at the moment including the release of our latest film, made by Zoe Paterson Macinnes and featuring an interview with writer Kevin MacNeil. Current restrictions are somewhat curbing our ambitions with […]
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The crew of the battlecruiser SMS Hindenburg in Scapa Flow, Easter 1919. Courtesy of Aglef Kaiser The crew of the battlecruiser SMS Hindenburg in Scapa Flow, Easter 1919. Courtesy of Aglef Kaiser (see the blog post ‘Rare Photographs of Scapa Flow’) German destroyers in Scapa Flow. Orkney Library & Archive. German sailors fishing off the
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The Scuttling of the German Fleet: 2019 Summer Exhibition at the Orkney Museum. Panel 1, Part 2. Naval Mutiny 1st and 2nd German Battleship Squadron, with light cruisers. German Torpedo Boats (Destroyers) on maneuvers. Naval Mutiny There had been growing resentment among the sailors of the High Seas Fleet on the run up to the
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The Scuttling of the German Fleet: 2019 Summer Exhibition at the Orkney Museum. Panel 2, Part 2. To Scapa Flow The German Interned Squadron in Scapa Flow. Tom Kent Collection, Orkney Library & Archive. The battlecruiser SMS Seydlitz on its arrival in the Firth of Forth. To Scapa Flow From Rosyth the Interned Squadron were
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The Scuttling of the German Fleet: 2019 Summer Exhibition at the Orkney Museum. Panel 2, Part 1. Operation ZZ SMS Kaiser on its way to the Firth of Forth, 21st November 1018. Orkney Library & Archive. Hochseeflotte, the German High Seas Fleet before the war. By the time of the Armistice, the German ships were
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The Scuttling of the German Fleet: 2019 Summer Exhibition at the Orkney Museum. Panel 1, Part 3. The Armistice German battlecruiser SMS Von der Tann. German High Seas Fleet on maneuvers at Kiel. HMS Queen Elizabeth, Admiral Beatty’s flagship, as seen from the rear turrets of the USS New York in Scapa Flow. The Armistice
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The Scuttling of the German Fleet: 2019 Summer Exhibition at the Orkney Museum. Panel 1, Part 1. Introduction. German Battle Cruiser ‘Derfflinger’ Above: The German Interned Squadron in Scapa Flow, anchored around the island of Cava. Below, key to the above photograph. Tom Kent Collection, Orkney Library & Archive. 2019 was the centenary of the
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GMB 100: The Centenary of the Birth of George Mackay Brown 1921-2021 George Mackay Brown at Ness Road, Stromness. On the 17th October 1921, in a small house in Stromness, a baby boy was born. The youngest of six children born to John Brown, a tailor and postman, and Mhairi Mackay. She was a Gaelic
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Images: ‘Echoes of Orkney’ paintings by Tom Nugent, The Orkney Museum, 9th February-26th March 2021 I have been asked if it was possible to photograph the current exhibition of paintings by Tom Nugent. Unfortunately the photos are not of high quality and have a glare from the lights, but are the best that we could
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Rare Photographs of Scapa Flow: Albert Göhler, SMS Hindenburg crew member, 1918-19 SMS Hindenburg in Scapa Flow. I was utterly delighted when I received a message from Aglef Kaiser via the Scapa Flow Museum Temporary Panels pages on this blog. He had found the post when looking for information about SMS Hindenburg’s time in Scapa
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