Scapa Flow

The Orkney Islands, area of Scapa Flow, a characteristic harbor following the times of the Norse intruders, all the more as of late a base for the Royal Navy, The last resting spot for the remaining parts of the German High Seas Fleet and the destination during the current years Selby Aquanauts jumping campaign.

The story begins toward the start of the twentieth century when Germany jealous of the provinces of her European neighbors and the riches they are conveying chosen to construct a naval force to match that of the British Royal Navy, at the time the most effective on the planet and defender of the greatest realm the world has known. With the Royal Navy as her objective Germany began the first weapons contest of the twentieth century.

The Royal Navy's arrangement as of now was to have the capacity to beat and outgun the second and third naval forces on the planet consolidated so no two nations could shape a partnership to overcome Britain and when Germany began their building Britain took a nearby hobby.

Since Britain was constantly all the more an oceanic country than Germany the base was set up to manufacture ships voluntarily so this was a race Germany was bound to lose, particularly when Britain drew out the first of another class of warship, "the Dreadnought" bigger and more capable than any war send ever constructed it gave its name to another class of boats.

As the immense war began Germany's maritime approach was to shell Eastern towns of England to entice the Royal Navy out and take them out independently. This approach never filled in as, Germany, constantly apprehensive of what was into the great beyond, had a tendency to attempt at manslaughter so the two effective naval forces acted slyly around the North Sea, Each needing to meet in fight, yet anxious of the force of their enemies, until May 1916. Both armadas were out and about in large numbers when a Danish shipper boat steamed past on the horizen and both naval forces sent a separation to research. The British boats were met by a dwarfing power of the German "High Seas" armada so turned and lead the Germans in a running fight onto the firearms of the quickly propelling gunboats of the "Fantastic Fleet". As murkiness fell neither side could guarantee a distinct triumph. The Royal Navy had lost more ships yet this was down to lighter protective layer to keep the boats speedier and more manouverable. The majority of the German boats had managed harm that would have sunk a British deliver so come the morning the German armada had fled to harbor for repairs, a considerable lot of them simply skimming masses.

The next day the "Fantastic Fleet" was back adrift and the "High Seas Fleet" was barred in port never to take to the oceans in power for the rest of the war.

As the war reached an end the once glad German naval force was escorted to internment at Scapa Flow where in a last disobedient act they left 74 they could call their own boats. Some were spared, others stranded and amid the 20's and mid 30's a huge rescue operation partook and huge numbers of the boats were rescued for scrap, in any case, with the onset of the second world war this ground to a halt, and afterward, in 1945 when W.W.2 finished there was no lack of scrap iron so the remaining 14 boat were left to rest.