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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 by its crews in June 1919, days before...
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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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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 Flow is a 1930 German drama film directed by Leo Lasko and starring Otto Gebühr, Claire Rommer and Claus Clausen. It is set around the Wilhelmshaven...
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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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established in August 1914 and disbanded in April 1919. Its main base was Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands. Formed in August 1914 from the First Fleet and...
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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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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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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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Unlike the battlecruisers in Rosyth, Queen Elizabeth was stationed in Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands and it was there that Blagrove met his future wife...
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(/ˈbʌriː/) is one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland. It lies to the east of Scapa Flow and is one of a chain of islands linked by the Churchill Barriers. Burray...
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into Scapa Flow on 29 May after completing the mission. While in Scapa Flow, King George VI inspected Wichita on 7 June. Wichita left Scapa Flow on 12...
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HMS Vanguard (1909) (category World War I shipwrecks in Scapa Flow)
training in the North Sea. Shortly before midnight on 9 July 1917 at Scapa Flow, Vanguard suffered a series of magazine explosions. She sank almost instantly...
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War ended in 1918, much of the German High Seas Fleet was escorted to Scapa Flow, where almost all of the fleet was scuttled to prevent its being divided...
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August 1939 Belfast was transferred to the 18th Cruiser Squadron. Based at Scapa Flow in the Orkney islands, 18th Cruiser Squadron was part of the British effort...
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SMS Von der Tann (category World War I warships scuttled at Scapa Flow)
Von der Tann, along with most of the High Seas Fleet, was interned at Scapa Flow pending a decision by the Allies as to the fate of the fleet. The ship...
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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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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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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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