Qualla: Loch Eriboll https://qualla.com/loch-eriboll en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/k/s/loch-eriboll-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Loch Eriboll https://qualla.com/loch-eriboll Loch Eriboll: Introduction https://qualla.com/loch-eriboll/ Photo credit Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Royal Navy called it Lock 'Orrible. Sailors stationed at this 16-kilometre sea loch during the Second World War spent enough freezing, sodden weeks here to invent the nickname and arrange stones on the hillside above Laid into the names of their ships - Hood, Amethyst, others - so that anyone passing afterwards would know they had been there. The names are still readable today. So is the rest of the story: this is the loch where the Battle of the Atlantic ended, in a long, quiet column of black-flagged U-boats arriving to surrender in May 1945.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/k/s/loch-eriboll-wp/gfks-loch-eriboll-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Loch Eriboll: Why the Navy Came Here https://qualla.com/loch-eriboll/ Photo credit Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0. Loch Eriboll cuts 16 kilometres into the north coast of Sutherland, a deep, sheltered fjord that has been used as a safe anchorage for centuries. The seas off Cape Wrath and through the Pentland Firth are among the most violent in Europe - tidal races collide, gales pile in from ...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/k/s/loch-eriboll-wp/gfks-loch-eriboll-why-the-navy-came-here.mp3 0:06 2 full Loch Eriboll: The Surrender of the U-Boats https://qualla.com/loch-eriboll/ Photo credit Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0. On 8 May 1945, Germany surrendered. Karl Donitz signalled his remaining U-boat captains to surface, fly a black flag, and steam to the nearest Allied port. Many came here. The 33 surviving German U-boats that surrendered at Loch Eriboll arrived one by one through May - long, low ...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/k/s/loch-eriboll-wp/gfks-loch-eriboll-the-surrender-of-the-u-boats.mp3 0:06 3 full Loch Eriboll: Crofts, Kilns and Quiet https://qualla.com/loch-eriboll/ Photo credit Paul Gregory, CC BY-SA 2.0. Long before the warships, Loch Eriboll had a quieter history. Bronze Age people built a souterrain and a well-preserved wheelhouse on the hillside above the west shore - stone-walled, semi-underground homes that survived the millennia mostly because nobody disturbed them. Around ...

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