• Read about the museums shortlisted for the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2023 here When Nick Hewitt takes people around Scapa Flow Museum, he likes to say “that the history of the world was shaped ...

Before joining Vice Admiral Somerville’s “H” Force in the Western Mediterranean in late August 1940, HMS Barham spent two months at Scapa Flow. My father, Surgeon-Commander E.R.Sorley, RN was the ...

She has carefully brought out the social history of Scapa Flow. Visitors often arrive at the museum with their own stories of relatives who served here, and new artefacts continue to pour in from a ...

A month after the onset of WW2, HMS Barham and the other battleships of 1st Battle Squadron were taken from the Mediterranean Fleet to re-inforce the Home Fleet. By the end of 1939, the only British ...