It was described as the "single greatest act of naval suicide the world has ever seen" and the centenary will be commemorated with a number of art and community events. The scuttling in Orkney's ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Today, many of the ships of the High Seas Fleet remain at the bottom of Scapa Flow, where wreck-divers often visit them. Given the enthusiasm with which scrappers ...

Flying over the lush, green islands of Orkney in Scotland, it is hard to imagine the area as an important naval base during the two World Wars. But a wide expanse of water south of Orkney mainland ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The destruction of the High Seas Fleet on June 21, 1919 still marks the greatest destruction of naval power in a single day in modern military history. A little over ...