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Research & Resources - Scotland's Museums Tells the story of
Scapa Flow, the Royal Navy's main anchorage in both world wars.
Housed in the oil pumping station of the former naval base at
Lyness, this museum tells the story of Scapa Flow, the Royal
Navy’s main anchorage in both world wars. There are artefacts
from HMS Hampshire, lost off Orkney in 1916 with Lord Kitchener
on board. The scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet on June 21
1919 forms part of the display, along with other World War I
exhibits. A display on HMS Royal Oak records how this battleship
was sunk by a German submarine in Scapa Flow early in World War
II. One of the oil storage tanks houses a display of larger
exhibits from World War II, while an audio visual display
recreates a wartime air-raid over Scapa Flow, complete with
antiaircraft guns. The Centre can be reached by a short ferry
trip over Scapa Flow to the island of Hoy. The ferry terminal is
just in front of the Centr