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A new look at the naval base at Scapa Flow, Orkney, and the ships that have used it and still remain today.

At Scapa Flow, Orkney, on 21 June 1919, the world's second most powerful navy deliberately sank itself. Four hundred thousand tons of shipping went to the botto

Originally published: Peppard Common, Oxfordshire: Cressrelles Pub., 1980.

At Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, there occurred an event unique in naval history. The German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built was deliberate

The naval anchorage of Scapa flow is the resting place of many wrecks, including several from the German grand fleet.