One scuttles one's own ship. The enemy doesn't scuttle you -- they sink you.
Good catch.
“Scuttling” is also a term applied to the deliberate sinking of a captured enemy vessel so as to keep it from other’s hands.
The boats were handed over after the war, taken to PH for examination and then scuttled.
The U.S. navy captured five Japanese subs, including the I-400, at the end of the Second World War and brought them to Pearl Harbor for inspection, the scientists said on Monday.
The Navy sank it with a torpedo hit in 1946. Does an intentional sinking of a vessel you possess count as a scuttle?
agree on point but not in the spirit of things but then agin what you dont know means the government will hurt you
“One scuttles one’s own ship. The enemy doesn’t scuttle you — they sink you.”
Well, if we won the war, technically, they were surrendered, and were “ours”. In the not too distant past, it was fairly common for the victors to actually re-flag and utilize the spoils of war. These days, of course, these goodies generally can’t be integrated into the victor’s command/control/support systems and are destroyed or possibly sold/given to others.
I do know that after the war, a lot of people in the Navy came back with some Very Cool Stuff taken from ships about to be scrapped (like deck-mounted binoculars, which were awe-inspiring in their optical quality).