One hundred two years ago the day before yesterday, the Imperial German High Seas Fleet was scuttled at Scapa Flow with the greatest loss of warships in history and the last casualties of the Great War.
102 years ago today fifty-two ships of the German Imperial Navy were sunk in a single afternoon, in what has been described by the BBC as “the single greatest loss of warships in history.” The loss occurred more than six months after the general cease-fire called the Armistice of Eleven November, and just a week before the final peace treaty ending the war. This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain are carefully selected and provide illustration. As very few images of the actual event are available in the Public Domain, images of similar objects and events are used for illustration.
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