SS Manela. Used as accommodation for RAF personnel 1939-1940 until camp built at Graven.

Belman hangar 1940s Sella Ness, Shetland. Wartime Sunderland and Catalina base at Sullom Voe.

Flare path dinghys laying at old RAF pier, Sella Ness 1942.

Cats & Sunderlands riding out rough weather, Garths Voe, 1942. Garths House in distance.

Catalinas and Sunderlands at mooring, Garths Voe 1942.

Catalina from Sullom Voe. Practice bomb run Yell Sound 1943.

Catalina dismantled after crash landing, Sullom Voe 1943.

RAF photo. Scatsta and Sullom Voe. Sept 1944.

Sullom Voe. Sunderland on take-off. 1943-45.

333 SQDR Catalina during refuelling at RAF station Sullom Voe ?1943 On the engine from left: Aage Rasmussen, Magnus Hareid, Fl engineers/gunners.

Off the RAF pier at Sullom Voe 1944/5. The vessel was called the Pinnace. It was powered by 3 Perkins diesel engines and was 60' long. Max speed 18 knots. An adapted version was used for air/sea rescue duties.

Scatsta aerodrome plan.

Sullom Voe, seaplane base. (Luftwaffe collection)

RAF camp, Graven, Sullom Voe. Rattar photograph, 1946.

Catalina float. Photo taken in 1978 at Gluss Isle. NB - Float sent to Duxford for fitting to 'Plain sailing Catalina'.

Brae/Graven road at Scatsta airstrip, looking south west. March 1978.

Gun post/lookout post, Calback Ness (RAF SV) June 1993.

WWII remains Calback Ness (RAF SV), June 1993.

Gun post/lookout post, Calback Ness (RAF SV) June 1993.

Gun post/lookout post, Calback Ness (RAF SV) June 1993.

Power house/generator mountings, Calback Ness, (RAF SV), June 1993.

Underground tunnel connecting lookout/gun post, Calback Ness, (RAF SV), June 1993.

Gun post. Rear of lookout post (RAF SV) June 1993.

Memorial to RAF Sullom Voe. Dedicated 9/97.

Memorial to RAF Sullom Voe. Dedicated 9/97.

Detail of memorial to RAF Sullom Voe. Dedicated 9/97.