Here’s What You Need to Remember: Today, many of the ships of the High Seas Fleet remain at the bottom of Scapa Flow, where wreck-divers often visit them. Given the enthusiasm with which scrappers ...

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SENIOR Royal Navy officers guessed that the Germans planned to scuttle their High Seas fleet in Scapa Flow in 1919 but could do nothing to thwart it, according to a book published yesterday. Author ...

Legal protection has been announced to preserve what remains of World War One warships in Scapa Flow off Orkney. The 52-strong German High Seas fleet was scuttled - deliberately sunk - by its crews in ...

A service will be held in waters near Orkney to mark 100 years since the scuttling of more than 50 German ships after seven months of incarceration. The German High Seas Fleet was interned at Scapa ...

The pair failed to return from exploring the wreck of the German warship SMS Brummer on Tuesday afternoon. A remotely operated underwater vehicle has been deployed around the site of the wreck to try ...

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A previously undocumented German wreck has been discovered in Scapa Flow. The vessel is believed to be a pinnace - a small boat which would have acted as a supply boat for larger ships. It is likely ...