The Wrecks of Scapa Flow
The Wrecks of Scapa Flow

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Publisher: Hyperion Books

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 9780907618065

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

Scapa 1919
Scapa 1919

Author: Innes McCartney

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-05-30

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 147282895X

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The German High Seas Fleet was one of the most powerful naval forces in the world, and had fought the pride of the Royal Navy to a stalemate at the battle of Jutland in 1916. After the armistice was signed, ending fighting in World War I, it surrendered to the British and was interned in Scapa Flow pending the outcome of the Treaty of Versailles. In June 1919, the entire fleet attempted to sink itself in the Flow to prevent it being broken up as war prizes. Of the 74 ships present, 52 sunk and 22 were prevented from doing so by circumstance and British intervention. Marine archaeologist and historian Dr Innes McCartney reveals for the first time what became of the warships that were scuttled, examining the circumstances behind the loss of each ship and reconciling what was known at the time to what the archaeology is telling us today. This fascinating study reveals a fleet lost for nearly a century beneath the waves.

Scapa 1919
Scapa 1919

Author: Innes McCartney

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-05-30

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1472828968

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The German High Seas Fleet was one of the most powerful naval forces in the world, and had fought the pride of the Royal Navy to a stalemate at the battle of Jutland in 1916. After the armistice was signed, ending fighting in World War I, it surrendered to the British and was interned in Scapa Flow pending the outcome of the Treaty of Versailles. In June 1919, the entire fleet attempted to sink itself in the Flow to prevent it being broken up as war prizes. Of the 74 ships present, 52 sunk and 22 were prevented from doing so by circumstance and British intervention. Marine archaeologist and historian Dr Innes McCartney reveals for the first time what became of the warships that were scuttled, examining the circumstances behind the loss of each ship and reconciling what was known at the time to what the archaeology is telling us today. This fascinating study reveals a fleet lost for nearly a century beneath the waves.

The Ships of Scapa Flow
The Ships of Scapa Flow

Author: Campbell McCutcheon

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2013-12-15

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1445633981

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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.

Dive Scapa Flow
Dive Scapa Flow

Author: Rod Macdonald

Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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Macdonald uses a mixture of historical narrative of the scuttling and subsequent salvage to tell the dramatic events at the end of World War I. He also includes details of advances in diving techniques which now allow access to deeper wrecks.

Nightmare at Scapa Flow
Nightmare at Scapa Flow

Author: H. J. Weaver

Publisher: Origin

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781912476626

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

Scapa
Scapa

Author: James Mark Miller

Publisher: Casemate Publishers

Published: 2012-09-28

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 0857905627

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This vivid history chronicles the legendary Royal Navy base through WWI and WWII with eyewitness accounts and photos—“a fascinating book” (Scots Magazine). Scapa Flow was one of the greatest naval bases in history. Located in the Orkney Islands, it played a vital role in the two great wars of the twentieth century. It was from there that the Royal Navy’s Grand Fleet sailed to Jutland in 1916. It was also the site of The Great Scuttle of the German High Seas Fleet after the First World War. Lord Kitchener disembarked from Scapa aboard the HMS Hampshire, headed for talks with the Tsar of Russia, before the ship was tragically sunk by a mine off Marwick Head. In the water of Scapa lie the wrecks of the HMS Vanguard, blown apart by an explosion in 1917, and the HMS Royal Oak, sunk by Gunther Prien of U-47 in a spectacular raid at the beginning of World War Two. It is also where Italian POWs built both the spectacular Churchill causeways and the exquisite Italian chapel at Lamb Holm crafted from Nissan huts. In Scapa, historian James Miller tells the story of this beautiful, bleak anchorage, weaving eyewitness accounts and personal experience into the larger narrative. Illustrated with archival photographs throughout, this volume captures the spirit and activity of Scapa Flow when it was the home of thousands of service personnel.