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: 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.

Dive Scapa Flow
Dive Scapa Flow

Author: Rod Macdonald

Publisher: Whittles

Published: 2017-04-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781849952903

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This is an updated edition of this classic dive book marking the 100th anniversary and is a comprehensive and practical guide to the history and present-day diving of the legendary Scapa Flow shipwrecks. It will be an indispensable book for all divers and those interested in classic shipwreck sites.

Scapa Flow Dive Guide
Scapa Flow Dive Guide

Author: Lawson Wood

Publisher: Aquapress

Published: 2008-06-01

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9781905492114

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Scapa Flow has international acclaim as one of the top wreck diving locations in the world. The shipwrecks are a mixture of battleships, cruisers and destroyers. This guide to Scapa Flow includes wreck details, photographs and a section on aeroplane wrecks.

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.

The Grand Scuttle
The Grand Scuttle

Author: Dan Van der Vat

Publisher:

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780340275801

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At Scapa Flow, Orkney, on 21 June 1919, the world's second most powerful navy deliberately sank itself. Four hundred thousand tons of shipping went to the bottom of Scapa Flow on that fateful day in the greatest act of self-immolation ever committed. However, few people are aware that rear-Admiral Ludwig von reuter was the only man in history to sink his own navy because of a misleading report in a British newspaper, that the Royal Navy guessed his intention but could do nothing to thwart it, and that the sinking caused the last casualties and last prisoners of the First World War. Fewer still know that the fragments of the Kaiser's great fleet are now on the moon. This is the story of the Grand Scuttle. Dan van der Vat has made use of previously unused German archive material, eye-witness accounts and the recollections of survivors as well as many contemporary photographs that capture the spectacle of the finest ships of the time being deliberately sunk by their own crews.

Shipwreck
Shipwreck

Author: Sam Willis

Publisher: Quercus Publishing

Published: 2013-12-05

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1782065229

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Shipwrecks have captured our imagination for centuries. Here acclaimed historian Sam Willis traces the astonishing tales of ships that have met with disastrous ends, along with the ensuing acts of courage, moments of sacrifice and episodes of villainy that inevitably occurred in the extreme conditions. Many were freak accidents, and their circumstances so extraordinary that they inspired literature: the ramming of the Essex by a sperm whale was immortalized in Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Some symbolize colossal human tragedy: including the legendary Titanic whose maiden voyage famously went from pleasure cruise to epic catastrophe. From the Kyrenia ship of 300 BC to the Mary Rose, through to the Kursk submarine tragedy of 2000, this is a thrilling work of narrative history from one of our most talented young historians.

Cox's Navy
Cox's Navy

Author: Tony Booth

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2005-10-19

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1781597812

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A deep dive into the biggest salvage operation in history: the recovery of German warships—the Allies’ spoils of World War I—from Scottish waters. On Midsummer’s Day 1919 the interned German Grand Fleet was scuttled by their crews at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands despite a Royal Navy guard force. Greatly embarrassed, the Admiralty nevertheless confidently stated that none of the ships would ever be recovered. Had it not been for the drive and ingenuity of one man there is indeed every possibility that they would still be resting on the sea bottom today. Cox’s Navy tells the incredible true story of Ernest Cox, a Wolverhampton-born scrap merchant, who despite having no previous experience, led the biggest salvage operation in history to recover the ships. The 28,000-ton Hindenberg was the largest ship ever salvaged. Not knowing the boundaries enabled Cox to apply solid common sense and brilliant improvisation, changing forever marine salvage practice during peace and war.