The chapel still linking Orkney and Italy - 80 years after WW2 ended
It's almost 80 years since the end of World War Two, during which Orkney became home to hundreds of Italian prisoners of war. But links forged between the island community and the former prisoners' ...
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Wreck of HMS Royal Oak visualised with 3D hologram
A 3D hologram of HMS Royal Oak, the first battle ship sunk in the Second World War, has been generated using sonar scan information to study the condition of the wreck on the seabed. The 3D model of ...
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Views sought on ambitious plans for new memorial complex to Royal Oak tragedy
The loss of battleship HMS Royal Oak – and two thirds of her crew – continues to resonate more than 85 years after she was torpedoed in her wartime anchorage of Scapa Flow. Ever since Orkney has been ...
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Royal Navy War Graves
The project shipwrecks were HMS Hampshire, 2016 (737 crew lost), HMS Vanguard, 2017 (843 lost) and Hms Royal Oak, 2018-19 (835 lost). The unique 3D data captured from these surveys were developed as ...
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The U-Boat commander who almost killed Churchill
Just two weeks prior, another U-boat had successfully sunk HMS Royal Oak anchored at Scapa Flow in Orkney, killing over 800 in the process. The audacious attack had made a celebrity of its commander, ...