Scapa Flow Anchor - Wetherby, UK
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dtrebilc
N 53° 55.677 W 001° 23.021
30U E 606127 N 5976715
This anchor recovered from Scapa Flow commemorates the relationship between the town of Wetherby and the Royal Navy.
Waymark Code: WM14A2D
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/27/2021
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The anchor is in a garden looked after by the Wetherby in Bloom organisation.
An information board in front of the anchor has the following information.
THE ANCHOR
This anchor was salvaged from the waters of Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands and is mounted here as a
reminder of the connections between Wetherby and the Royal Navy.
In 1942 the Navy took over an unused camp on the York Road as a 'ship', and the area now occupied by the
High School as the associated female residential camp, known as HMS Ceres (Moorland) or more usually 'The
Wrennery'.
This became the Supply and Secretariat base for the Royal Navy, and once fully established was the country's
largest land based 'ship'. Commissioned as HMS Cabot it was promptly sunk according to the German
wartime propoganda. The name changed in 1943 to HMS Demetrius and again in 1944 to HMS Ceres. The base
was finally closed in March 1958 and its work transferred to HMS Pembroke at Chatham, Kent.
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