Wartime Lyness - Scapa Flow 1943

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Title

Wartime Lyness - Scapa Flow 1943

Description

Welcome to the former Royal Navy base at Lyness, Hoy. The Base lies at the heart of Scapa Flow, which provides an enormous sheltered anchorage, in a commanding position from which to control the North Sea and the North Atlantic. Scapa Flow was the base for the Navy’s Grand Fleet in WW1, and again for the (renames) Home Fleet in WW11.

Source

highlandandislands

Date

1943

Contributor

iain

Language

English

Type

Site

Identifier

657

Date Submitted

21/09/2025

Date Modified

11/25/2025 02:54:10 pm

Spatial Coverage

current,58.834510756122626,-3.193759918212891;

Europeana

Country

Scotland

Europeana Data Provider

Wartime Lyness - Scapa Flow 1943

Europeana Type

TEXT

Site Item Type Metadata

Institutional nature

Cultural Heritage

Prim Media

1402

End Date

1943

Citation

“Wartime Lyness - Scapa Flow 1943,” VERAP, accessed April 2, 2026, https://culturality.museum/omeka/items/show/1403.

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