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Info board about the creation of the Churchill Barriers following U47 U-boat entering through this channel on 13/10/39, just 6 weeks into WW2, where Gunther Prien fired 3 torpedoes into HMS Royal Oak and sank within 18 minutes with the loss of 788 men.Winston Churchill ordered that the eastern approaches to Scapa Flow be permanently sealed off, and with the aid of 1,200 Italian POWs captured from Eygpt, were brought to Lambholm in January 1941 and commenced the building of the barriers, which are used as Causeways today for the inhabitants of the southern isles of Burray & South Ronaldsay.