War and Conflict World War I. pic: 21st June 1919. The German Fleet scuttled at Scapa Flow. German sailors in a boat approaching the shore after their ship the "Nurnberg" had been scuttled. The German fleet was interned after the November 1918 Armistice,

War and Conflict, World War I, pic: 21st June 1919, The German Fleet scuttled at Scapa Flow, German sailors in a boat approaching the shore after their ship the "Nurnberg" had been scuttled, The German fleet was interned after the November 1918 Armistice, (a ceasefire) and as no final treaties had been signed and with Rear Admiral Ludwig Von Reuter in command the order was given for the Germans to sink their own ships to "stop them falling into enemy hands", In one of the great salvage epics ever almost all the German ships were raised and scrapped, some of these being used as target practice (Photo by Bentley Archive/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
War and Conflict, World War I, pic: 21st June 1919, The German Fleet scuttled at Scapa Flow, German sailors in a boat approaching the shore after their ship the "Nurnberg" had been scuttled, The German fleet was interned after the November 1918 Armistice, (a ceasefire) and as no final treaties had been signed and with Rear Admiral Ludwig Von Reuter in command the order was given for the Germans to sink their own ships to "stop them falling into enemy hands", In one of the great salvage epics ever almost all the German ships were raised and scrapped, some of these being used as target practice (Photo by Bentley Archive/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
War and Conflict World War I. pic: 21st June 1919. The German Fleet scuttled at Scapa Flow. German sailors in a boat approaching the shore after their ship the "Nurnberg" had been scuttled. The German fleet was interned after the November 1918 Armistice,
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