Instead the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow was a deliberate act of sabotage ordered by a commander who refused to let his ships become the spoils of war. It was the single ...

When The Fleet Went Down: Scapa Flow @100 When the Fleet Went Down: Scapa Flow @100 The unforgettable school trip that witnessed the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet.

Mr Higgins said: "This is an important marine archaeology project surveying what remains of the German High Seas Fleet warships that were salvaged from Scapa Flow in the inter war period.

However despite all the grandiose plans that the Germans formulated, the German High Seas Fleet ... to surrender its fleet to the victors. Interned at Scapa, Flow in Scotland, the fleet would ...

It saw the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet, based at Scapa Flow in Orkney, clash with the German High Seas Fleet. Prime Minister David Cameron, German President Joachim Gauck and Scotland's First ...

The German High Seas Fleet quickly joined the dreadnought race, while the U.S. Navy remained somewhat behind. The first all-big-gun U.S. battleships entered service in 1910. The main battery on ...

Oldtimers on the north tip of Denmark remember a special kind of sea thunder, which they heard during the late afternoon and night of May 31, 1916. It was the firing of heaviest naval ordnance and ...

High seas cover over half of our planet’s surface, and represent two-thirds of the entire ocean. They serve as a crucial habitat for countless marine species, many of which remain undiscovered.

When The Fleet Went Down: Scapa Flow @100 When the Fleet Went Down: Scapa Flow @100 The unforgettable school trip that witnessed the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet.