Scuttling of the German Fleet in Scapa Flow

When

21 Jun 1919

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

58.89° N, 3.18° W

Description

attempted scuttling of the captured German fleet in 1919

Naval

yes

War

World War I

Destruction of interned warships, 21 June 1919

On 21 June 1919 the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet was scuttled by its sailors while held off the harbour of the British Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow, in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. The fleet was interned there at the end of World War I under the terms of the Armistice of 11 November 1918 while negotiations took place over its fate.

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