Fact Slap 👋 Today in 1940, HMS HOOD leads a small Task Group out of Scapa Flow, Orkney Island out into the North Atlantic. They are heading for the Faroe Islands and the gap between them and Iceland. This is one of 4 access points from the German bases around the Baltic, Norway and the North Sea out into the Atlantic. The other gaps are: • Shetland- Orkney Gap- dangerous due to British patrols both air and sea and minefields. • Orkney- Faroe Gap- wider area of sea but easily covered by air and