What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Emerald Wings: Skerry Sound, Scapa Flow, Orkney as Craft (20th Century)-(1940), Steamship (20th Century)-(1940). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
The *Emerald Wings* was a steamship lost in 1940 in Skerry Sound, Scapa Flow, Orkney, likely during World War II. Details on the cause of loss, lives or cargo lost, and its wider significance are not recorded.
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