Автор: S.C. George
Название: Jutland to Junkyard
Издательство: Birlinn
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 214
Язык: English
Размер: 34 MB

Under the terms of the treaty ending World War I, the German High Seas Fleet was compelled to sail to the Scottish anchorage at Scapa Flow. Before the British could take control of the ships, the German officers scuttled the fleet, sending 16 capital ships and numerous smaller craft to the bottom. From 1924 the German ships were raised and their high-quality metal fittings converted to scrap, in the greatest salvage operation of all time.