Old travel Blog photograph of the pier at Longhope, a coastal settlement on the island of South Walls, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Longhope has been associated with the navy since trading ships heading for the Baltic were assembled into convoys here to avoid privateers during the Napoleonic Wars. The Longhope Hotel became the headquarters of the Scapa Flow Naval Base, home to the British Grand Fleet between 1914 and 1919, after which it moved to Lyness, 3 miles to the ?North. King George V visited in 1915, knighting Vice Admiral Sir Stanley Colville, Admiral Commanding Orkney and Shetland, at the hotel, and King Edward VIII, then Prince of Wales, visited later the same year.
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