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Language: en
Pages: 146
Pages: 146
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-15 - Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
A new look at the naval base at Scapa Flow, Orkney, and the ships that have used it and still remain today.
Language: en
Pages: 202
Pages: 202
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-28 - Publisher: Birlinn
"The place where the German U-boat sank the British battleship Royal Oak was none other than the middle of Scapa Flow, Britain's greatest naval base! It sounds
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982 - Publisher:
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 botto
Language: en
Pages: 275
Pages: 275
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-01 - Publisher: Birlinn
At Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, there occurred an event unique in naval history. The German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built was deliberate
Language: en
Pages: 84
Pages: 84
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-20 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
At the outset of World War II, Scapa Flow was supposed to be the safe home base of the British Navy – nothing could penetrate the defences of this bastion. So