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Re: Scuttling of Interned German Fleet at Scapa Flow, and its Aftermath
Posted by: Urs Heßling ()
Date: June 19, 2022 11:44AM

Nitin_Shirsekar Wrote:
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The action took their captors totally by surprise. The British fleet had sailed out of Scapa Flow that morning on a routine training exercise.
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The British lookouts could only gaze in disbelief
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in the waters littered with the remains of the Imperial German Fleet

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Three comments
1. I`m not sure about the "surprise". The British admiralty might have known about the plan, doing nothing to prevent it, even letting the Fleet leave Scapa Flow, as it was against British global interests to let modern and well-proved warships come into the possession of other states (France, Italy)

2. The British lookouts did not only gaze, but opened fire on the crew of the MARKGRAF killing several.

3. By 1939, most wrecks (xmt 4) had been raised and demolished.

greetings, Urs

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