Photograph Notes: In the distance, the narrow stretch of water on the horizon, Hoxa Sound, forms the main entrance to Scapa Flow. It lies between Hoxa Head on South Ronaldsay, (left) and Stanger Head on Flotta, (right). This was known as the Hoxa Gate and was heavily defended during both world wars. It was the route which the Royal Navy's capital ships (the ones with big guns) used to enter and leave Scapa Flow. Just about every British battleship you can think of (and a fair few from the USA) sailed over that horizon and through that gap into Scapa Flow. "In from out" it was called. The whole German battlefleet did so too, in November 1918: some of it is still here. From this spot in June, 1916 you might have seen HMS Hampshire leave with Kitchener on board, into a full gale, to sink with few survivors a couple of hours later. Less than a week earlier she had fought at the Battle of Jutland and returned without a single casualty. In May, 1941 it would have been HMS Hood leaving, never to return, through that one small gap.
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