Scapa Flow Scapa Flow (/ˈskɑːpə, ˈskæpə/; from Old Norse Skalpaflói 'bay of the long isthmus') is a body of water in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, sheltered...
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sailors while held off the harbour of the British Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow, in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. The fleet was interned there under...
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Scapa Flow is a body of water in the Orkney Islands. Scapa Flow may also refer to: Scapa Flow (band), an electronic body music band Scapa Flow (film),...
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Scapa Flow was a Swedish EBM band, formed in 1988, and was one of the icons of the new EBM and synth scene that emerged in Sweden in the late 80's. The...
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interned at Scapa Flow in the north of Scotland at the end of World War I. On 21 June 1919 he ordered the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow to prevent...
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Günther Prien (section Second patrol: Scapa Flow)
British battleship HMS Royal Oak at anchor in the Home Fleet's anchorage in Scapa Flow. Prien was one of three children of a judge and completed his basic education...
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Scapa distillery is a Scotch whisky distillery on The Mainland of Orkney, Scotland on the shore of Scapa Flow near the town of Kirkwall. Scapa is the third-northernmost...
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Scapa Flow Museum is a war museum in Lyness on the Island of Hoy, Orkney, Scotland. Housed within a refurbished Romney hut and oil fuel pump house at the...
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HMS Royal Oak (08) (category World War II shipwrecks in Scapa Flow)
suitable for front-line duty. On 14 October 1939, Royal Oak was anchored at Scapa Flow in Orkney, Scotland, when she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-47...
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High Seas Fleet (section Internment at Scapa Flow)
November 1918, the Allies interned the bulk of the High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow, where it was ultimately scuttled in June 1919, days before the belligerents...
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Ark Royal returned to Scapa Flow the following day, and was reassigned to the Mediterranean Fleet. Ark Royal left Scapa Flow with the battlecruiser Hood...
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Churchill Barriers (redirect from Scapa Flow Barriers)
the natural harbour of Scapa Flow, by the German submarine U-47 under the command of Günther Prien. U-47 had entered Scapa Flow through Holm Sound, one...
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Scuttling (section German fleet at Scapa Flow (1919))
warships of the German High Seas Fleet were scuttled by their crews at Scapa Flow in the north of Scotland, following the deliverance of the fleet as part...
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escort and naval gunfire support. Royal Oak was sunk at her moorings in Scapa Flow in October 1939 by a German U-boat, and two other ships of the class were...
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news was received of a massive German naval operation, she set out from Scapa Flow as part of the Home Fleet under the command of Admiral Charles Forbes...
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Seas Fleet, but saw no combat. Both Bayern and Baden were interned at Scapa Flow following the Armistice in November 1918. Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter...
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resulted in the internment of the majority of the High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow; the ships were eventually scuttled on 21 June 1919 to prevent them from...
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outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, when she was moored in Scapa Flow as a harbour defence ship. In October, she was badly damaged by German...
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February 1940 and completed on 4 November 1941, and joined the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow. Duke of York displaced 36,727 long tons (37,316 t) as built and 42,076...
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and British responses to the July Crisis and joined the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow on 22 July 1914. All three sisters participated in the Battle of Jutland...
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repairs by Cammell Laird, and returned to Scapa Flow on 1 July 1942. The battleship did not leave Scapa Flow until 18 December when she finally resumed...
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HMS Matchless (G52) (section Scapa Flow)
undertook sea trials in the Firth of Clyde and then joined the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow for crew training in gunnery and torpedo attacks. Her first active service...
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Scapa Flow (1924–1928) was an American Thoroughbred race horse, a son of Man o' War. He first came to prominence in 1926 after winning the 43rd running...
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Scapa may refer to: Scapa distillery, a Scottish distillery Scapa Flow, a body of water in Scotland Scapa Society (Society for Checking the Abuses in...
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Battle Squadron, Fremantle oversaw the interned German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow, and was away on exercises when the sailors began to scuttle their ships...
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cancellation of the plan. Karlsruhe, Emden, and Nürnberg were interned at Scapa Flow after the end of the war, and were scuttled on 21 June 1919, though only...
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Document Archive. Retrieved 29 January 2017. "HMS Vanguard People: Scapa Flow Wrecks". Scapa Flow Historic Wreck Site. Retrieved 23 December 2016. Burt (1986)...
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talks with the British government. As the Home Fleet was assembling in Scapa Flow when tensions with Germany rose in August, Rodney developed steering problems...
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Jacobite army at Culloden. Orkney was the site of a Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow, which played a major role in World War I and World War II. After the...
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Pentland Firth, which the Grand Fleet was likely to cross when leaving Scapa Flow, while the remainder proceeded to the Firth of Forth, awaiting battlecruisers...
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