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Ness Battery was a crucial element of the defences of the western entrance to Scapa Flow, in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, the main fleet base for the Royal Navy in both World Wars. Several of the original wooden huts which formed the accommodation camp are still intact, and in one of these is a painted mural covering three walls, depicting rural English scenes. An extensive programme of stabilisation and renovation was completed in 2012 and the site is now open for guided tours. == World War I == In World War I Ness Battery was one of three batteries covering the Hoy Mouth from the north side. In 1915 the three batteries were equipped with guns manufactured in the United States and manned by a mixture of Royal Marines and local men of the Orkney Royal Garrison Artillery.〔Orkney at War: Defending Scapa Flow Volume I: WWI by Geoffrey Stell ISBN 9781902957487〕〔Scapa Flow: The Defences of Britain’s Great Fleet Anchorage 1914-45 – by Angus Konstam ISBN 978184603366 7〕〔Orkney Coast Batteries 1914-1956 by Jeff Dorman ISBN 1846033667, ISBN 9781846033667〕 After World War I the batteries were dismantled and the guns scrapped,〔This Great Harbour: Scapa Flow by W.S. Hewison ISBN 0907618111〕 but traces of the World War I battery are still to be seen today.
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