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Memorial: M6468

Memorial at Marwick Head, Scapa Flow, Orkney commemorating the men of HMS ‘Royal Oak’, sunk by ‘U-47’ in 1939

Location

Marwick Head, Scapa Flow, Orkney, Scotland

Transcript

'TO THE / GLORY OF GOD / AND IN / REMEMBRANCE OF / THE 134 MEN / OF / HMS ROYAL OAK / LOST IN SCAPA FLOW / OCTOBER 14TH 1939 / THIS MEMORIAL / IS ERECTED / BY SURVIVORS/ FAMILIES / AND FRIENDS OF / THE ROYAL OAK / ASSOCIATION AND / ORKNEY ISLANDS / COUNCIL / AD 2010' [plinth] 'HMS ROYAL OAK / 1916-1939'[side two] 'HMS ROYAL OAK / COMMEMORATES THE TREE NEAR BOSCOBEL / IN WHICH CHARLES II / HID AFTER HIS ESCAPE / FROM THE FIELD OF WORCESTER / IN 1651 / SCUTUM REGIS / (THE KING'S SHIELD) / MOTTO: OLD BUT FIRM / ROYAL SOVEREIGN CLASS / BATTLESHIP / BUILT BY DEVONPORT DOCKYARD / BATTLE HONOURS / JUTLAND 1918 / WITH HMS RESOLUTION / TOOK PART IN / TROOP LANDINGS AT / LAPSEKI DARDANELLES / 1928' [side three] 'UNVEILED BY / AGNES McBARROW / NEE MILLAR / ON / 1TH OCTOBER 2011 / IN THE PRESENCE OF / ADMIRAL HOCKLEY / FLAG OFFICER / SCOTLAND / & NORTHERN IRELAND'

Details

Description: Obelisk and large replica of the badge of 'Royal Oak'.
Type: Obelisk
Materials: grey granite
Vessel: HMS Royal Oak

Event

1939-1945 Second World War

Extra

Notes: HMS Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship built for the Royal Navy in 1914. She was lost in 1939, when the German submarine U-47 infiltrated the British anchorage at Scarpa Flow. U-47 torpedoed the Royal Oak, sinking the ship causing the loss of some 833 souls of her 1,234 complement.
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