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SCAPA Flow is that land- importance. Long before the out- break of war in 1914 It was used by roomy comfort, locked sheet of water in the the feet as a practice and exercising and long-lived southern part of the Orkney ground. At that time it was un- Islands which served as the defended; but as soon as hostilities
ztirted, it was gradually made
maceure main base of the Grand Fleet
ngalas
attack by hostile submarines. ines. Batteries were erected and the en- during the war of 1914-18, trances blocked by sinking old ships, and is being used again to barred by mines and booms. A day,
floating dock and 'a number of supply and repair ships were also It is also the place where the provided for the maintenance of the surrendered German Fleet of Fleet eleven battleships, five battle- When this present war started, cruisers, eight light cruisers and Scapa Flow had more or less re- fifty destroyers was interned in quillity. It was subjected to enemy lapsed into a state of peaceful tran- November 1918, and was sunk ir-raids within a few days of nes- by its own crows on June 21, tilities starting, and these sti con 1919.
tinue spasm.oucally, though with igible results. On October 14, 1939, Many of these ex-German the battleship "Royal Oake"
Jake" was sunit ships have since been salved, with heavy loss of life by U-boat towed upside-down to a dock which had penetrated into the Flow. yard, and there_converted into As the First Lord of the Admiralty scrap metal. The non-ferrous said in the House of Commons or metals, like brass, bronze, and immunity which Scapa Flow, with November 8: The long and famed copper, were always valuable for its currents and defences had gained re-smelting. The steel armour- plate could be sold for conver- sion into cutlery. It is strange to think that some
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IT was an East Coast port, body wriggled into lifebelts and tied That position has
once handled the the topus very carefully, without now been rectified that had Scapa Flow Is herring harvest, but it might 'Three of us there were On the adequately defend-have been any port in Britain, bridge besides the signalman. The ed and is used by because it was pitch dark and Reserve Lieutenant had swept mines actually found its way back to the ships of the Fleet,
the only reminder of the through the last war and had been Germany, whence it was Being cut off from the mainland herringa was a lingering smell blown up three times. Since then he
und rather inaccessible, the Orkneys
hed commanded his own ships, big exported to Britain and all over are not much frequented by tourists of fish, the world in the form of scissors in time af peace.
The wharf was slippery with biggish salary to come back and nk cargo ships, but he had. that up and for a salter-a
and safety-razor blades.
two at
re-
Huy, as has been said, is the high-ice and heaped with the para- est and most conspicuous of all the phernalia of minesweeping, dan teach youngsters a trick o
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Cars
There are a good many people
could teach his skipper though, like Germany's ex-Kaiser. He THE main anchorage of Scapa feet above sea level, with other bills
by the buld miss of Ward Ill, 1,505 buoys, sinkers and coils of wire, od same. There wasn't much he From the edge of the wharf. I old minsweeper of the lost war like has been living in a quiet spot Flow is a great expanse of deep of over a thousand feet.
looked down on the decks of invisible himself. Thirty odd years he had in the Netherlands. Now that water some eleven mļies" long, east
trawlers: gleams of light from shaded fished the North Sea, following the
forcenaile WHAT names some of them lanterns and the Nazis are there, one of his and west, and seven miles wide, north
doorways cod and the herring off Iceland and
Faroes nothing but a winch-drum or the
and trawling solcs showed grandsons speaks for him: "So
and southi. It is bounded on the enjoy! Ward Hill is understand-a boiler room casing, and the forms amongst the sandbanks of the East estuaries. The Lieutenant far as Grandpa is concerned, all north by the large island of Pomona, able, but who christened Cuilags, of men shrouded in duffle coats or Const he desires is to be left in peace
over the or Mainland; to the cast and north- the Knap of Trowieglen, Withi oliskins moved momentarily through took a bearing and bent
[these Itle pools of on his little Dutch estate."
east by the smaller islands of Burray Gill and Sky Fen?
per sorted con- Though this quaint epilogue to
and South Ronaldsay; to the west and But the Orkneys abound in strange illumination and
temptuously. southwest by the island of Hoy, which Cunding topographical matars, must vanished again into. the tragedy of 1914-18 is some-
of them of Norse origin. The name the darkness. is the highest island in the whole of the islands-Flotta, North and thing of an anti-climax, Wilhelmi
they spoke at all. Il's present wish to preserve his
group with hills running up to nearis South Ronaldsay, Shapinsay, Rontay, It We s ไป 1,600 feet.
Westray and so forth-usually ter- undertone. own peace is more understand-
ay" which is the minate In "** or ay," able than some of his earlier
The south-western part of the Flow Norse
The dawn came'
They're mostly "cy,"
meaning "island." slowly. From the
wrong Drag * mistures o impulses. But, of course, it is divided into several Sounds, avali- Islets are call
called
isolated deck of one of these trawlera I saw a trawl over Inshore soundings oll should not be confused with able for destroyers and smaller craft, rocks "kerries," and tidal currents the fly to the eastward lighten and your life. Ye'll not have great re- peaceful thinking.
by the smaller. Islands of Cavo, Risa,
the confusion of shrouds and ratlines gurd for the chart." Fora and Flotta. There are
The uplands of Hoy are wild and was like a gigantic spider's web, three The experience of small entrances, Hoy Sound to the west for the inust part, with a few stunted us were trawlers crowded in the ward and sniffed the bitter wind. despiate, heather-covered moorland glistening with hour frost. All round HE turned his face to wind- nations in Europe, whose chief opening, Into the Atlantic; Hoxa trees struggling for existence and basin as sheep are herded in a pen: He had a fur-lining-to-his- would be left in peace, is Pentland Firth; and Holm Sound to ing westerly winds. There are pat-away in sooty clouds against the leather coat, wisps of grey hair
hes of bush providing an object lesson for
and forze and stony the east, opening into the North Sea.
nd stony growing light. Through the stoke stuck out round his peaked cap. the rest of the world. One of
screes on some of the steeper ill- The Pentland Firth, that seven- sides, with innumerable tiny lochs exhausts came sounds, shovels His shrewd old eyes and the fallacies of recent decades
scraping on metal and the clang of a mile stretch of water which separates and Larns, little streams tumbling furnace door. The Reserve Leuten ragged with frostbite, all gave has been the supposition that as
roisily
Men the Orkney Islands from the north
down some of the slopes, and
ant who was in command of a unit a suggestion of a scarred old fox, long as a country wasn't too am-
many patches of boggy ground of minesweeping trawlers climbed wise in a thousand intuitions and coast of Scotland, hus one of the in the depressions. Snow lies bitious, it was safe; as long as
deep
cumbered world. in many of the higher gullies antivy inboard,
with experiences. The Lieutenant reputations it didn't want anything, it would When the tide is at Its strongest if fin in summer the highlonds areidtured us. In the dim light u wco-
He called the skipper who straightened up from the chart spring in the
commanded the rowler and Intro- be able to keep out of trouble.
rushes through the Firth at seven Even Much has been written on
knots, and the eddles and whirlpools lonely and deserted. A shepherd ther beaten face peered into the technique through which are uncertain and dangerous. Even my climb their steep escarpments in with shrewd eyes, As they turned read it Jock, may be. All day they Holland kept out of the World
search of one of his flock, while in away I heard him say to the Lieuten- maintained a half-affectionate, half- great battleships, for no apparent the latter half of August one may ant
acidulated give and take of repartee. War. The Dutch simply armed reason, have suddenly been swirled sometimes hear the popping of guns
"Is yon man releeglous?"
"Schooling! I was top of my themselves thoroughly for de- through right-angle
21
class when your mither was- wring- more Dunid the heather. Or
Otherwise, few fence of the Netherlands proper, out of their course.
folk When a strong ed in mist as often s
the hills
ills of Hoy. Shroud-
ing out your wee napples, man." It and sustained with whatever gale is blowing against the tide in during winter, there are
nol, unlivable.
was the swift retort of the fisherman THEY climbed up onto the to the deep-sea-sailor, not the buck- grace they could muster the raises a dangerous perpendicular sea habitations, no cultivation. The hills bridge and their voices died chat of a
a Patról Skipper to his Unit insults and injuries that small
as God made
them
softly away. neutral trading nations must
rounded, sometimes gaunt and
We reached at length the channel I was about to follow when expect on world highways in
where magnelle mines were suspect ged; but always unspoiled and lovely During the last wor a battleship in
later
their mantles an unfamiliar object caught my ed. The masts of a cargo ship stuck with summer wartime.
punching her way westward against of deep purple heather. Their sil-eye, I walked nearer to inves- up out of the water inshore where Americans, and people in other a gale had her bridge, boats and ence is only disturbed by the shrick tigate and saw that it was a they had tried to beach her after the countries, were inclined to read other sttings smashed, and
or rustle of the wind driving in from into the Dutch experience in the
sea. Was it a solitory mine or were of tong the open Atlantle, the splashing of Christmas tree, right aft in the explosion that ripped her open to the men Injured. Some hundreds of tons rills and little waterfalls, the mourn staff steeped..
of stern where normally the ensign there more at them lying hidden World War a lesson on how to of water found their way below. ful crying of plover and curlew, with
along the path of coastwise shipping? keep out of all wars: “Mind
It was on the Pentland Skerries, the occasional distinctive call of It was not long since Christmas, We should know presently.
Our but I felt somehow that it was
companion your own business, promise to
sweeper make some trouble if anyone during a violent gale and a blinding
in the eastern end of the Firth, grouse or snipe.
symbolic of something, besides being plunging up on our quarter as we actually attacks your own roost,
THE chief claim to beauty of a reminder of recent festivity. It slowed down. We veered a grass. snowstorm in January 1918, that twe the Orkneys lies in the clearness was perhaps a little shy about it and thackled a wire to it. This we hauled occurred to me that the old skipper line astern and she picked it up and and don't talk back when outside destroyers crashed on the rocks with of the atmosphere, and the was wondering whether I suspected inboard, connected it to our sweep your own backyard." That was the prescription. But now what? The solitary survivor, washed asture coloration of land and sea, bim of being relecgious'; and while wire and paid it out again. As the
And besides, is the desire to
I stood there ruminating the syren winch released it and it slid astern through the bailing surf and clusters more magnificent seu frontages than tooted and we began to elbow our various contraptions were shackled keep out of war necessarily synonymous with a desire for claw his way to the top of a spray forms the west coast of Hoy
the twelve-mile wall of cliff which way stern first out of the jam. 1 to it at intervals and finally the two
off abcam, of found my way up onto the In genuine peace? The Kaiser has swept recity islet, its gullies filled pinces they rise perpendicularly out and as we passed other bridges a few been th
away, hard-bilteni faces not hitherto been considered with driven snow, Bruised, cut and of the sea to heights of between nine grinned at us out of balaclava hel- The trawlers pltched and rolled much of a pacifist.
bleeding he kept himself alive with hundred and twelve hundred feet. meta and dume cowls. "Good luck and the icy spray drifted over the
The fullest seucliffs in Britain, they snow and limpets taken from
men working the wire. The man at they said.. the present a solid buttress to the fury "Good luck!" said two days later.
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day checking its outward, surge to a foot gales beating home with might of league upon league of the box with Death.
Another day of rattling, the dlee. When it was necessary to shackle on "Good luck!" Ore some appendage. He had the lives open Atlantic, ON the west coast of Fomona, the water's edge, the cliffe are mostly the harbour and formed up astern of the day. They worked with bare Dropping sheer to by one they warped clear out into of everybody on that heaving deck In his hands a score of times during satisfaction of shipping accommoria- near Marwick Head, a granite of old sandstone, battered. fretted us. The old skipper grinned aud tion, and strongly resent criticism, tower marks another great and weatherbeaten by the process of nudged me, jerking his hend at the hands scarred all over with old while. other
equally responsible tragedy of the last war. It is brightest terra-cotta to brange and is nown by men-of-war manoeuvring, new ones. There were scarcely any timo, and varying in colour from the pendant flying at our cross tree. " gashes and streaked with blood from 'observers are strong in their con- the memorial to that great amber yellow. Alleviated here and by battleships and cruisera demnation, especially where It is soldier Lord Kitchener, and the there by narrow crage and grassy destroyers. It
and orders except in the customary asserted at British women and
signißes. "I have undertones," There were times when children were unnecessarily crowded officers and men of the cruiser ledges which afford lodgement for assumed guide of the Fleet." He the wires behaved like mad: prihons in native steerage quarters. So con- "Hampahire', who lost their innumerable.
and were rather more dangerous, sured
full daylight when we But nobody got in anybody's way or felt that no good purpose would be mine and sank off this spot dur. The Orkneys
and gales, by centuries of
reached open sea. A grey day with was at a loss in any emergency. served at the present juncture. In publishing them. That the facts calling a heavy gale on June 6, 1916. sizeable town bouts on only two a wind out of the Northeast sharp These trawlers crews had handled on the main and cruel broken glass. The little wires from childhood; they knew lalandKirkwall, to
without the cast and trawlers lifted their heels to the exactly what to do
being Scapa Flow and Its neighbourhood. Stromness with its greystone houses North Sea swell and threw the spray told, and did it.
and narrow paved streets, to the over their broad shoulders. Oc- enquiry, will, in due course, be made. The well-sheltered anent protegie Turn to Page 3, Seventh Column and sluiced across the deck. Every- Turn to Page 3, Sixth Column west. Most of the sentiored islands casionally a wave flopped. Inboard FROM a spectator's point of avaliable to the public.
nicting are these reports, that it is lives when that ship struck a trot and tunneds, they are As- was very proud of that pendant.
for official investigation. In evident,
and it is to be hoved that conclusions. arrived at, should there be an ometal
is a place of many memories.
cuples" a position of great strålegle
It was