[elcid1970]

Ironic how after the Armistice the Germans were ordered to surrender their High Seas ships to the British, but then scuttled them all in Scapa Flow in a final act of defiance.

Took Britain twenty years to clean out the wreckage.

[AU72]

Ironic how after the Armistice the Germans were ordered to surrender their High Seas ships to the British, but then scuttled them all in Scapa Flow in a final act of defiance.

My wife's grandfather witnessed the grand scuttle just out of Annapolis. In WWII he was one of the chief architects of amphibious landings, commanding transport squadrons across the Pacific and was the first flag vessel into Nagasaki taking the city's surrender in his wardroom.

[Fiji Hill]

Ironic how after the Armistice the Germans were ordered to surrender their High Seas ships to the British, but then scuttled them all in Scapa Flow in a final act of defiance.

Took Britain twenty years to clean out the wreckage.

Some of the wreckage is still there--and is a source of iron free from radioactive contaminants that is in demand in some sectors of the high tech industry.

[kearnyirish2]

I believe when we were testing naval aviation and bombing (with Billy Mitchell) we used some of those German ships as the unlucky targets.

[mowowie]

I read a book on the salvage of Scapa Flow.
It is amazing how that man managed to re-float something like 90% of those scuttled ships.