Author : Campbell McCutcheon
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 2013-12-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445633981
A new look at the naval base at Scapa Flow, Orkney, and the ships that have used it and still remain today.
Author : H. J. Weaver
Publisher : Origin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Scapa Flow (Scotland)
ISBN : 9781912476626
Originally published: Peppard Common, Oxfordshire: Cressrelles Pub., 1980.
Author : Innes McCartney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 35,47 MB
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1472828968
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.
Author : Tony Booth
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 2005-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1781597812
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.
Author : Nicholas Jellicoe
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1848323239
“A compelling, dramatic account of the Royal Navy's last great sea battle.” —Robert K. Massie, Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times–bestselling author of Dreadnought More than a century later, historians still argue about this controversial and misunderstood World War I naval battle off the coast of Denmark. It was the twentieth century’s first engagement of dreadnoughts—and while it left Britain in control of the North Sea, both sides claimed victory and decades of disputes followed, revolving around senior commanders Admiral Sir John Jellicoe and Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty. This book not only retells the story of the battle from both a British and German perspective based on the latest research, but also helps clarify the context of Germany’s inevitable naval clash and the aftermath after the smoke had cleared.
Author : Nicholas Jellicoe
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,15 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Scapa Flow Scuttling, Scotland, 1919
ISBN : 9781526754585
Analyzes the fleet mutiny in the last months of the War that precipitated a social revolution in Germany and the eventual collapse of the will to fight. The Armistice terms imposed the humiliation of virtual surrender on the High Seas Fleet, and the conditions under which it was interned are described in detail. Meanwhile the victorious Allies wrangled over the fate of the ships, an issue that threatened the whole peace process.
Author : Dan Van der Vat
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 17,5 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Arms race
ISBN : 9780340275801
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.
Author : C. W. Burrows
Publisher : Periscope Publishing Limited
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 15,99 MB
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : Navy-yards and naval stations
ISBN : 9781904381433
Features photos of the Royal Navy at Scapa showing the day-to-day aspects of base life as well as its fleet. This book contains images which depict the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet.
Author : Donald A. Bertke
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 43,52 MB
Release : 2011-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1937470008
Day-to-Day Naval Actions April 1940 through September 1940
Author : Donald A Bertke
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 25,99 MB
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1937470032
Day-to-day naval actions June 1941 through November 1941.
