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First echosound image of Scapa Flow battleship wreck
In November 1918, the battleship left Germany for the last time, and was among the many interned ships of the German High Seas Fleet in the Orkney anchorage of Scapa Flow the following year.
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The day the German navy surrendered in the Forth
"It is the ultimate humiliation for the German High Seas fleet." Within a week the German fleet were escorted to Scapa Flow where they were interned until June 1919. Having learned of the possible ...
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UK and Germany side by side at the centenary of the biggest naval engagement of WW One
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 ...