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Visit Scad Head Battery & Anti-Submarine Boom D, Orkney, Scotland
Boom “D” had been completed by April 1915 and comprised an anti-submarine boom, with two gates, between Houton Head and Scad Head. The effect of the boom was to control access through the Bring Deeps, into the main part of Scapa Flow. A coastal battery was sited at Houton Head during the First World War providing fire over the defence.
The boom was re-established during the Second World War and a second battery constructed at Scad Head, providing artillery fire from both sides of the Bring Deeps.
There are remains of multiple anchor points at both ends of the barrier, and a large pile of presumed Second World War anti-submarine net at the Scad Head termination.
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