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Re: scapa flow
Posted by: peiper ()
Date: May 18, 2009 03:36AM

Gaines Blackwell Wrote:
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> If you ever get chance it is a beautifully barren
> and isolated place to visit. Little left on the
> land but HMS Royal Oak is upside down with her
> keel about 5-10 meters below the surface. HMS
> Vanguard is too, from WW 1, as well as 70 odd
> ships of the Grand Fleet scuttled there after WW1.
> A lot of history at Scapa.

Greetings
Scapa is an intresting place, i had visited it some years ago, i don't know if
it has changed since, there is a small church which apparantly Italian POW's
built as well as a museum and cenotaph where the names of the crew from the
Royal Oak are listed.
My Uncles name is on there as he had been killed on the "Oak", it is Boy SM E Cox,
as he had joined the RN at the age of 16yrs in 1937 as a "boy-sailor".
Regards "Peiper".

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scapa flow Rab Thomson 10/14/2008 11:13PM
Re: scapa flow David H 10/15/2008 08:37AM
Re: scapa flow Gaines Blackwell 10/19/2008 01:57AM
Re: scapa flow peiper 05/18/2009 03:36AM


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