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

The loss of the German Fleet of Scapa Flow, Scotland 21st June 1919.
The largest salvage ever undertaken. Salvaged mostly upside down using compressed air forced through shafts fixed to the hull.

Sorry its the "Von der Tan" not "Van"

Der Verlust der deutschen Flotte des Scapa Flusses
Die deutsche Reichsmarineflotte


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SMS Konig Albert SMS Kaiserin SMS Prinzluitpold SMS Vann der Tann.
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[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

[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!!!

[brssgirl]

SMS Moltke shows amazing steel bending to make the long fairings for the propellor shafts.. all done by rack of the eye in those days too.

[stormrider620331]

@brssgirl Also when they came to the surface ,,would tow them to the shallows and blast and cut the super structures away

[stormrider620331]

@brssgirl  I have a book about this ,,used sinking docks

[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 !!!

[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).

[ronnoten]

Great footage of the forth railway bridge to.

[xxxchrist1]

Incredible footage, thanks for posting this.