Tour Scotland short travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the inhabited island of South Walls on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to the Orkney Islands. South Walls forms the southern side of the harbour of Longhope. Overlooking Longhope in the north east is Hackness Martello Tower and Battery. The tower, together with another on the north side at Crockness, was built in 1815 to protect British ships in the bay of Longhope against attack by American and French privateers, during the Napoleonic Wars, while they waited for a Royal Navy escort on their journey to Baltic ports. The towers were rearmed for World War I. South Walls has substantial remains from the World War II period, when Scapa Flow was used as a Royal Navy base.
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