The Great Scuttle: The End of the German High Seas Fleet
The Great Scuttle: The End of the German High Seas Fleet After the German surrender in November 1918, the German High Seas Fleet was interned at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, the anchorage for…
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The Great Scuttle: The End of the German High Seas Fleet
After the German surrender in November 1918, the German High Seas Fleet was interned at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, the anchorage for the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet throughout the First World War. Most ships began to sink within hours, witnessed by a visiting group of school children suddenly caught up in an event of international importance. Determined not to see his ships fall into the hands of the Allied Powers as the protracted peace negotiations at Versailles dragged on, the German commander, Admiral Von Reuter, decided to scuttle his fleet and secretly passed orders between his ships for their skeleton crews to open the seacocks on 21 June 1919.
More than thirty of the sunken warships would later be More than fifty of the seventy-four German ships that had steamed into Scapa Flow were successfully scuttled and sunk, the remainder having been beached before they could sink.
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