The site where German sailors deliberately scuttled their High Seas Fleet at the end of the First World War has been awarded legal protection in Scotland. Scapa Flow has been designated a Historic ...

THURSO, Scotland, June 23, 1919 (UP) -- Of the German vessels interned in Scapa Flow, the dreadnaught Baden and the cruiser Emden remained afloat today. The Frankfort and the Nuremberg may possibly be ...

Legal protection has been announced to preserve what remains of World War One warships in Scapa Flow off Orkney. The 52-strong German High Seas fleet was scuttled - deliberately sunk - by its crews in ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Today, many of the ships of the High Seas Fleet remain at the bottom of Scapa Flow, where wreck-divers often visit them. Given the enthusiasm with which scrappers ...

I have often wondered why the Germans did not make greater efforts to reduce our strength in capital ships by destroyer or submarine attacks on our bases in those early days. They possessed, in ...

Shortly after the armistice that ended World War I, the Germans surrendered their fleet to the Allies. The British in particular very strongly believed that Germany should be deprived of her fleet at ...

In a war where adversaries are hardly at grips, it is hard to grip war’s facts. Most tangible important fact of last week was the statement (upon being landed safely in Great Britain) of Captain F. C.