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Unknown: Glimpsholm Skerry, Holm Sound, North Sea

Craft (19th Century)

Site Name Unknown: Glimpsholm Skerry, Holm Sound, North Sea

Classification Craft (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Skerry Sound; Scapa Flow

Canmore ID 287708

Site Number ND49NE 8043

NGR ND 4811 9961

NGR Description ND c. 4811 9961

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Orkney Islands
  • Parish Maritime - Orkney
  • Former Region Orkney Islands Area
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

ND49NE 8043 c. 4811 9961

N58 52.87 W2 54.0

NLO: Holm Sound [name centred ND 500 992]

Glimps Holm [name: ND 472 991]

Glimpsholm Skerry [name: ND 482 995]

Stromness [name: HY 253 090]

Scapa Flow [name centred HY 36 00].

Possibly on map sheet HY40SE.

(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 17 September 1914). Unknown: reported as remains of a blockship sunk in 1914.

(Location of loss cited as N58 52.87 W2 54.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The identity of this vessel remains unclear, the cited location remains unverified, and no description of the remains is apparently available.

The cited location falls just SW of Glimpsholm Skerry [name: ND 483 995] and to the SE of Churchill Barrier No. 2 (ND49NE 15). The name Holm Sound applies to the waters E of Lamb Holm [name: HY 485 003] on the E side of Scapa Flow. Skerry Sound is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the current edition of the OS (GIS) notes the name around ND 4814 9995, between Glimps Holm and Glimpsholm Skerry.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 March 2007.

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