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A
SCAPA Flow is that land- Importance. Long before the out- comfort, locked sheet of water in the break of war in 1914 it was uned by the flect as a practice and exercising southern part of the Orkney ground. At that time it was un- Islands which served as the started, it was gradually made secure defended; but as soon as hostilities main base of the Grand Fleet against attack by hostile aubmarines. during the war of 1914-18, trances blocked by sinicing old ships, Batteries were erected and the en- and is being used again to- ur barred by mines and booms,
small floating dock and a number of day.
It is also the place where the pinvided for the maintenance of the and repair ships were also
surrendered German Fleet of Fleet. eleven battleships, five battle- When Uhis present war started, fifty destroyers was interned in quility. It was subjected to enemy cruisers, eight light cruisers and Scapa Flow had more or less 1- Japsed into a state of peaceful tran- November 1918, and was sunk air-raids within a few days of nos- by its own crews on June 21, tilities starting, and these still con 1919.
ne spasioucally, though with nog- Many of these ex-German D
ligible results. On October 14, 1939, ships have since been anlved, with
"Royal Oak" was sunk the fo
of life by a 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 Raid in the House of Commons ou 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 of the armour
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-by- TAFFRAIL
actually found its way back
in the last
war. had led to o 100 casy vit
valuation of
the dangers which
were present."
That position has
Sca
"Nover mind the waiter-he's overheard so many of our doals, our company made him a vice president!”!
DICING
WITH DEATH
IT was an East Coast port, body wriggled into lifebells and tied handled the the tapes very carefully, without
once
Flow is herring harvest, but it might comment.
Three of us there were
either wholly or in part without previous Germany, whence it was. re and rather inaccessible, the Orkneys/herrings was a lingoring smell blown up three times.
now been rectified. that had Scapu
on the adequately defend-have been any port in Britain, bridge besides the signalmon. The ed and is used by because it was pitch dark and Reserve Lieutenant had swept mines to the ships of the Fleet,
the only reminder of the 4 through the last war and had been Since then be Being cut off from the mainland
had commanded his own ships, big are not much frequented by tourists of fish.
ocean-going cargo ships, but he had sallor-a in time at peace.
Hoy, as has been said, is the high-ice and heaped, with the para- teach youngsters a trick or two
The wharf was slippery with thrown that up and-for
biggish aulary to come back and est and most conspicuous of all the phernalia of minesweeping, dan the old game. There wasn't much he
Arrangement
Doves At Doorn
exported to Britain and all over. the world in the form of scissors and safety-razor blades.
Orkney islands, dominated as it is
•
21
by BARTIMEUS
at
The skip- per snorted con- temptuously
"Charts 1 The charts can't tell me anything in- alde the forty- fathom line. They're mostly Drag
There are a good many people like Gormany's ex-Kaiser. He
by the bold mass of Ward Hill, 1,ses buoye, sinkers and coils of wht. could teach his skipper though, an THE main anchorage of Scopu feet above sea level, with other hills From the edge of the wharf I old minsweeper of the last 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 decics of invisible himself. Thirty odd years he had in the Netherlands. Now that water some eleven miles long, cust
trawlers: gleams of light from shaded fished the North Sea, following the doorways cod and the herring off Iceland and the Nazis are there, one of his and west, and seven miles wide, north WHAT names some of them lanterns and forecastle
showed nothing but a winch-drum or
the
Faroes and trawling sotes grandsons speaks for him: "So and south. It is bounded on the enjoy! Ward Hill is understand-a boller room casing, and the forms amongst the sandbanks of the East far as Grandpa is concerned, all north by the large island of Pomona, able, but who christened Cuilage, of men shrouded in duffle coats or Coast estuaries. The Lieutenant he desires is to be left in peace
or Mainland to the east and north the Knap of Trowlegien, Withiolskins moved momentarily through took a bearing and bent over the
chert. on his little Dutch estate."
these little pools, of east by the smaller islands of Burray Gill and Sky Fen?
and and South Ronaldsay; to the west and Though this quaint epilogue to
But the Orkneys abound in strange Illumination the tragedy of 1914-18 is some-
southwest by the Island of Hoy, which sounding topographical names, most vanished again into- Is the highest island in the whole of them of Norse origin. The name the darkness. thing of an, anti-climax, Wilhelm
of the Islands Flotte, North and group with hills running up to nearly South Ronaldsay, Shapinsay, Ronsay, it was in
they spoke at all II's present wish to preserve his
1,000 feet.
Westray and 50 forth-usually ter- undertone. own peace is more understand- able than some of his carlier
The south-western part of the Flow inate in "a" or "ay," which is the
Norse
The dawn came? meaning "Island." impulses. But, of course, it
is divided into several Sounds, avail- Islets are called "holms" isolated deck of one of these trawlers I saw a trawl over inshore soundings all
slowly. From the
wrong should not be confused with
able for destroyers and smaller craft, rocks "skerries," and tidal currents the sky to the eastward lighten and your life. Ye'll not have great re-
**oosts." peaceful thinking.
by the smaller islands of Cava, Risa, The uplands of How are wild and confusion of shrouds and ratlines gard for the chart." Fora and Floits. There are three
desolate, heather-covered moorland white u gantic spider's web... opening into entrances, Hoy Sound to
HE turned his face to wind- the Atlantic; Hoxa trees struggling for existence and basin-as-sheep-are-herded-in-a-pon..
us were trawlers crowded the ward and sniffed the bitter wind. sound to the south, leading into the leaning well away from the prevail- the smoke from their funnels rolled. He had a fur thing to his Pentland Firth; and Holm Sound to ing westerly winds. There are pat-away in sooty clouds against the leather coat, wisps of grey hair the cast, opening into the North Sea, ches of bush and furze and stony growing light. Through the stoke- stuck out round his peaked cap. screes on sume, of the steeper hill-hold exhausts come sounds, shovels His shrewd old eyes and ears The Pentland Firth, that seven- sides, with innumerable tiny lochs scraping on metal and the clang of 1
The experience of small nations in Europe, whose chief hope-seemed to be that they too would be left in peace, is providing an object lesson for the rest of the world. One of
has been the supposition that as long as a country wasn't too am- bitious, it was safe; as long as It didn't want anything, it would be able to keep out of trouble.
the
was
the west for the most part, with a few stunted Sustening with hoar frost. All round
Even in
In
the fallacies of recent decadesmile stretch of water which separates and tarns, little streams tumbling furnace door. The Reserve Lieuten- ragged with frostbite, all gave the Orkney Islands from the north noisily down some of the slopes, ant who was in cominand of a unit a suggestion of a scarred old fox coast of Scotland, has one of the and many patches of boggy ground of minesweeping trawlers climbed wise in a thousand intuitions and
the depressions. Snew lies deep heavily inboard, worst reputations in the world. In many of the higher gullies until clothing. He called the skipper who straightened up from the chart cumbered with experiences. The Lieutenant When the tide is at its strongest it late in the spring.
commanded the trawler and intro- rushes through the Firth at seven
-table. Much has been written on knots, and the eddies and whirlpools lonely" in summer the highlands arejduced us. In the dim light' a'wea-
and deserted. A shepherd ther beaten face peered into mine "Ye'd not have the schooling to the technique through which are uncertain and dangerous. Even march of one of his fock, while in away I heard him say to the Lieuten- maintained a half-affectionate, half- 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 great battleships, for no apparent the latter half of August one may ant: War. The Dutch simply armed reason, have suddenly been swirled sometimes hear the popping of guns themselves thoroughly for de- through a right-angle
more amid the fence of the Netherlands proper, and sustained with whatever
In grace they could muster the insults and injuries that small neutral trading nations must expect on world highways in wartime.
or
heather. Otherwise. Lew
"Is yon man relegious?" "I don't know. What's the odds?"" "Well, times I swear awfu","
away.
unspoiled
und
loveh
We
ded: but always their manties an unfamiliar object caught my ed: The masts of a cargo ship stuck
sea. Was it a solitary mine or were
acidulated give and take of repartee. "Schpoling! I was top of my class when your mither was wring- out of their course. When a strong folk mist as often as not, unlivable the hilla of Hoy. Shroud-
int out your wee napples, man." It gale la blowing against the tide it in during winter, there are
wis the swift retort of the fisherman THEY climbed up onto the to the deep-sea-salior, not the back- raises a dangerous perpendicular sea habitations, no cultivation. The hills bridge and their voices died chat of a Patrol Skipper to his Unit which may cause damage to even a ure us God made them-softly
Commander, full-powered steamship,
* · rounded. sometimes gaunt and
reached at length the channel I was about to follow when where magnetic mines were suspect- During the last war a battleship in inter
suminer punching her way westward against of deep purple heuther. Their all-eye. I walked nearer to inves- up out of the water inshore where Americans, and people in other
& gale had her bridge, boats and ence is only disturbed by the shriek tigate and saw that it was a they had tried to beach her after the countries, were inclined to read other fittings smashed, and many or rustle of the wind driving in from Christmas tree, right aft in the explosion that ripped her open to the into the Dutch experience in the men injured. Soine hundreds of tons rills and little waterfalls, tire mourn staff steeped.
the open Atlantic, the splashing of stern where normally the ensign there more of them lying hidden World War a lesson on how to keep out of all wars: "Mind your own business, promise to make some trouble if anyone actually attacks your own roost, and don't talk back when outside your own backyard." That was the prescription. But now what? And besides, is the desire to keep out of war necessarily synonymous with a desire for genuine peace? The Kaiser has not hitherto been considered much of a pacifist.
The Evacuation
of water found their way below. ful crying of plover and curlew, with
*
*
It was on the Pentland Skerries, the occasional distinctive call In the eastern end of the Firth, Brouse or snipe. during a violent gale and a blinding snowstorm in January 1918, that two
of
wng
nlong the path of coastwise shipping? It was not long since Christmas, We should know presently.
Our bul I felt somehow that it
companion sweeper come wo symbolic of something, besides being plunging up on our quarter us
grass festivity. It slowed down. We veered- THE chief claim to beauty of a reminder of recent
occurred to me that the old skipper line astern and she picked it up and destroyers crashed on the rocks with the Orkneys lies in the clearness was perhaps a little shy about it and shackled a wire to it. This we hauled. the loss of all but one of their crews coloration of land and sell
of the atmosphere, and the was wondering whether I suspected inboard, connected it to our sweep him of being 'releeglous'; and while wire and paid it out again. As the The solitary survivor, washed ashore
and it slid ostern The United Kingdom bas few through the boiling surt and clusters more magnificent sea frontages than looted and we began to elbow our various contraptions were shackled
stood there ruminating the syren winch released of sharp-fanged rock, managed claw his way to the top of a spray forms the west coast of
10 the twelve-mile wall of cliff which way stern Brat out of the jam. I to Hut Intervals and finally the two In found my way up onto the bridge trawlers started off abeam of each swept rocky islet, its gullies filled places they rise perpendicularly out and as we passed other bridges a few other, the submerged sweep towing
kyards
hard-bitten away, with driven snow. Bruised, cut and of the sea to' heights of between nine ye
faces between them..
The trawlers pitched and rolled grinned at us out of balaclava ·hel- bleeding he kept himself alive will hundred and twelve hundred feet. mets and duille cowls. "Good luck" and the icy spray drifted over the
The tallest seacliffe in Britain, they they said. mow and impets taken from the
men working the wire. The man at racks at low water. He was rescued present a solid buttress to the fury
of the westerly and north-westerly "Good luck!" vald we, another day the winch controlled it miraculously, two days later.
checking its outword surge to a foot all the dawning. "Good luck!" gales beating home with
when it was necessary to shackle on might of league upon league of the box with day fact test. One some appendage. He had the lives open Atlantic. Dropping sheer to ON the west coast of Pomona, the water's edge, the cliffs are mostly the harbour and formed up astern of in his hands a score of times during ly by one they warped clear cut into of everybody on that heaving deck satisfaction of shipping accommoda- near Marwick Head, a granite of old sandstone, battered. fretted us. The old skipper grinned and the day. They worked with bare tion, and strongly resent criticism, tower marks another great and weatherheaten by the process of nudged me, jerking his head at the hands, scarred all over with old while
other
equally responsible | observers are strong in
and in colour from the pendant It gashes and with blood from espoole tragedy of the last war. It is brightest, terra-cotta to orange and Dendam ying at our, cross tree. If Bash ones. There were scarcely any demnation, especially where it is soldier Lord Kitchener, and the amber yellow. Alleviated here and by batticships, and cruisers, and orders except in the customary asserted that British women and
by narrow crags and grassy destroyers. It signifies "I have undertones. There were times when children were unnecessarily crowded officers and men of the cruiser ledges which afford lodgement for assumed suide of the Fleet." He the wires behaved like mad pythonis in native steerage quarters. So con- "Hampshire", who lost their innumerable seabirds, they are fis- was very proud of that pendant. and were rather more dangerous. flicting are these reports, that it is lives when that ship struck
Bured
and tunnelled by centuries of It was
full daylight when we But nobody got in anybody's way or reached open eu. A grey day with was at a loss in any emergency. served at the present juncture in
The Orkneys possess only. two a wind out of the Northeast, sharp Those trawlers crews had handled publishing them. That the facts calling a heavy gale on June 6, 1916, slzenble towns both on
the main, and cruel as broken glass. The little wires from childhood they know for omcial Investigation is evident,
Island-Kirkwall, to the cast and trawlers lifted their heels to the exactly what to do without being Scapa Flow and its neighbourhood Stromness with ite graystone houses North Sea swell and threw the spray told, and did it. and it is to be hoved that conclusions a place of many memories, arrived at, should there be an omelal
and narrow paved streets, to the over their broad shoulders. Oc enquiry, wil, In due course, be made Available to the public.
The "Telegraph"
has
received
widely varied opinións concerning the evacuation of women and chil- dren from the Colony. Some express
felt that no good purpose would be mine and sank off this spot dur frast end gales,
Another of rattling
"The well-sheiterell anchorage oc- weak. Most of the scattered Islands casionally a wave flopped inbeord: FROM a spectator's point of cupies a position of great strategie Turn to Page 3, Sevonth Column and shufced across the deck. Every- Tum to Faga 9, Sixth Columiz