Lyness and South Walls
June 13th 2017 13 June 2017
We took the van on the mid-morning ferry to Lyness on the island of Hoy. Lyness is on the shores of Scapa Flow and in both world wars was an important naval base as a large part of the British Fleet was anchored near there. In an old oil pumping station, we looked around an exhibition describing the main events of the time including the 1919 scuttling of many German ships th
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