The Imperial German Navy Fleet Scapa Flow Suicide and Salvage. SMS Hindenburg U Boats etc.

[onlywhenpissed]

Amazing.

[boleynali]

great video with an..incredibly annoying song.

[brssgirl]

abnyone got shots or video of eh ships in drydock for cutting up? I can't understand how they got them into adrydock to cut up as they were so tall.?

Anyone in the area of the docks?

[2307Martino]

lang lebe die deutsche kaiserliche Flotte - im Kampf unbesiegt, von den Siegermächten gestohlen und gedemütigt - shame !!!

[ronnoten]

Great footage of the forth railway bridge to.

[xxxchrist1]

Incredible footage, thanks for posting this.

[pearlsnaredrummer77]

I believe there are a few ships not salvaged. It would be cool if one could be raised and preserved.

[181stTIE]

@pearlsnaredrummer77 Various books on the subject state the remaining wrecks were partly stripped where the lay on the bottom of Scapa Flow, making them no longer airtight.

Other wrecks were raised by compressed air with airlocks visible in the footage (those at an angle show how the wreck with a list lay upside down on the seabed).

The only German war ship to remain from that period was the BC Goeben, which was scrapped in the early 1970's (was part of the Turkish navy).

[jensww22]

Hab ich noch nie gesehen - sehr interessant.

[wumi10]

Sehr beindruckender Clip und eine passende tolle Musik-Complment

[Bazgatow87]

As a german, I fell humiliated, seeing the ships of our navy like this. How the Entente treated us, after we ceased fire, was not the treatment of gentleman!

[Catoprion]

nice music and video, thank you.

[anothercrusader]

A fascinating movie. Slightly creepy too. Ghost ships rising from the grave especially the SMS Hindenburg.

[TATER1971]

Long live Britain

[boleynali]

read the books "cox,s navy." and "from jutland to junkyard" they will tell you all about the salvage of the german fleet.

[helstontvx]

Germany, Britain, France...united we could really be something.

[ifyoublinkyouwilldie]

war sucks -.-

[rxjimen]

what is the purpose of those chimmeys at the bottom of the ships?

[timpovikings]

@rxjimen

These were airlocks.

Cox & Danks used parts of other salvaged ships to construct these tubes, which were then placed on upturned hulls to allow access to the wrecks. It's through these tubes that divers entered and began to seal the hulls as compressed air was forced in.

They sealed scuttles and hatches with cement.

[idle44]

I read somewhere much of the scrap was sold back to Germany and re-used for the next German Fleet.

[lonewulf44]

I've not seen this footage! Amazing ... I wish more video and information was available. There is only really one book on this subject isn't there? The Grand Scuttle.

[NicolasPeucelle]

I also imagine the Kaiser in his dutch emigration retreat getting the news from his beloved nayy ships being lost in this way.. and just becoming a bunch of scrap metal beside the coast of his grandmother Victoria's island where he went often on a vacation being a child. I think these shipsare all his favorite toys. The useless toys of a half british child who did not like to send them to battle but hoped to keepthem for the peacetime since they were so long to be built that a life is too short.

[NicolasPeucelle]

When I see these impressive images of huge masses of steel, than my thoughts are going to the Reichstag sessions long before 1914.. when the Members of that parliament had to vote for the approval of new battle ships. All that money invested into this policy of seawarfare and glory of the german fleet. The Kaisers dream of a germany having influence till the pacific. To protect the german development of commerce and the colonies. In fact Wilhelm loved his ships so much that they fought little.

[helstontvx]

far out footage...been dying to this salvage. every rivet on those ships cost the youth of Europe.

[granskare]

a nice lot of work for the chaps there !

[chrishelenrose]

Great footage,i am reading a book at the moment of the salvaging of the fleet by Ernest Cox and his men,these pictures make it a bit clearer the almost imposible task he faced,he had no experiance of raising ships beforehand,the book is called" Coxes navy".

[TheLastSaneManLeft]

video = OMG good

audio = ear stench

[SSFreeza]

Hallo zusammen! Es ist eine Schande das wir nicht ein einziges Schiff aus dieser Ära mehr haben! Wäre doch schön ein Schlachtschiff oder Schlachtkreuzer bei uns als Museumsschiff vor Anker liegen zu haben als Denkmal an die Gefallenen auf allen Seiten! Aber selbst wenn dürften wir das ja nicht weil egal wie, dann wären wir ja alle wieder Nazis! Schade Schade Schade!!!

[Jeansschwimmer]

Hör mal zu Du, Dein komisches Selbstmitleid ist fehl am Platze, Wer sollte es denn verbieten?

Als die Norweger U-995 loswerden wolten, landete es in Laboe am Strand, als die türkische Marine die ehemalige Goeben an die Bundesrepublik zurückgeben wolte die sie seit 1915 besessen hatten, scheute die Bundesrepublik wegen der enormen Kosten vor dem Angebot zurück, das bedauere ich auch, aber hier wilde Schuldzuweisungen an den Rest der Welt herumzuschleudern ist unangemessen.

[Handkante84]

Also wenn sich Deutschland dazu entschloßen hätte so ein großartiges Schiff SMS Goeben zurück zukaufen von den Türken, hätte sie Heute das ganze Geld wieder reingeholt, schaut euch die Englischen Schiffe an oder das Russische Nationaldenkmal Aurora (schiff) an .meine Meinung

was Mich ärgert ist aber das drei Jahre zuvor angefragt wurde wegen dem Rückkauf was aber abgeleht wurde von der Türkei! hätte fast geklappt das wir solch ein schönes Schiff hätten.

[sevoranee]

@SSFreeza buddel eins raus aus dem schlick, bring es an die oberfläche , bau es zusammen , und stell es dir in den Garten. Wir haben moderne und gefährliche Schlachtschiffe. Das weiss die ganze Welt, und niemand sagt Nazi.

Wir haben die grössten Killer Maschinen ausgestellt. Deutsche Jagd U-Boote.

Laboe lässt grüssen.

[Bronzedraken]

@SSFreeza

Die Möglichkeit würde sogar heute bestehen. Der deutsche Kreuzer der in dem Bogart Film African Queen zu sehen ist steht heute zum Verkauf.

Aber offensichtlich ist es den Volkszertrettern wichtigern das Geld den Banken in den rachen zuschmeißen.

[Bazgatow87]

@SSFreeza Der Große Kreuzer S.M.S. Goeben wurde in den 70er Jahren von der türk. Regierung zum Verkauf angeboten, aber das hat die damilige Regierung natürlich abgelehnt und so wurde dieses einmalige Relikt verschrottet :/

[vadmscheer]

OMG, where did you find the vintage footage?

[ScottB303]

Good video, but the constant repeat of the soundtrack was not good. Change that, and you have an awesome video!

[KtBdOKW]

Thank you for adding this.

You've collected very rare material there.

Kudos.

[ToonandBBfan]

Where did you get that from?

It was the Captain of the MakrGarf NOT the Konig that was killed.

I believe the total number of Germans killed was only about 12 (certainly no where near as high as 83) and they were NOT shot in the water they were shot onboard by Marines who attempted to prevent the scuttling.

[014649]

thank you psari and youtube love seeing video's from this period almost 100 years ago

[014649]

i saw a tiny bit about this on history channel but thought the royal navy scuttled the ships not german navy that is crazy but i guess better than letting your enemy get a hold of them and effectivly doubling their fleet but all the gauges would be in german right?

[ToonandBBfan]

The British wouldnt have been politically allowed to put the ships into their own fleet.

A treaty was signed not long after WW1 ended limiting the number of warships a navy could have.

If they had not been scuttled they would have either been sunk as target practice or cut up for scrap.

By sinking their own ships the Germans were able to give the British the middle finger in a final act of defiance

[craigm1995]

@ToonandBBfan

Publicly the British were outraged but in private there was a sense of relief that the problem of what to do with the fleet was now ended

[Wolfen443]

@ToonandBBfan, I agree better scuttled than captured by the enemy.

[HingerlAlois]

The Brits were probably quite happy that the ships were gone, otherwise they might have (at least partially) become a part of the French Navy, which wasn't in the interest of the Brits.

[granskare]

nice images but odd audio accompanying...

[iroscoe]

By the same token the scuttling was nothing to be proud about one thing lead to the other .

[ultraliner13]

Thank you so much for putting up this video.

My late father gave me a book calle The man who bought a navy and its great to re read that book and now watch this video and get a better understanding of these ships and the people who worked hard to salvage them.

Cheers

John

[buidseach]

how long after the sinking were they salvaged ? they looked as if theyed been sunk for a while.

[iroscoe]

The contract for salvage was awarded to a Scottish contractor they worked on the salvage for into the 1930's .

[ToonandBBfan]

3 of the battleships are still underwater there today mate.

Konig

MarkGraf

Kronprinz

[Grahampk73]

A great video, I have books with some pictures of this salvage but have never seen any video footage. It a shame to see once mighty ships torn apart. I am proud of the Royal Navy and Im sure the german navy has some dark moments in its history

[DrGull1888]

Interesting.

[TFlex01]

I never realized this event happened. Beautifully composed video, as usual. Thanks.