the German High Seas Fleet committed suicide. On June 21, 1919, the crews of seventy-four German warships attempted to scuttle their vessels in order to prevent the Allies from taking them.

The German battle cruiser Derfflinger four ... order was in fact the prearranged signal for the entire High Seas Fleet to prepare to scuttle its ships. When his ships confirmed that his order ...

the German High Seas Fleet committed suicide. On June 21, 1919, the crews of seventy-four German warships attempted to scuttle their vessels in order to prevent the Allies from taking them.

By chance, the children’s school trip on June 21, 1919, was also the day Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter issued the order to scuttle the 74 warships from the German High Seas Fleet under his ...

The German High Seas Fleet was interned in Scapa Flow following Armistice in ... With the previous deadline for a treaty passed, he issued an order to scuttle the ships. The admiral was made a ...

Yet beneath its waters lies a lesser-known legacy: the wrecks of Imperial Germany’s High Seas Fleet, scuttled in 1919 by their own malnourished and demoralized crews to prevent seizure by the ...

The mightiest fleet ever to sail from Britain's shores was heading for a final rendezvous with its mortal enemy - the German High Seas Fleet. Victory would be total. But there was to be no battle.

Dan Snow hears accounts of those who witnessed the restlessness, disorder and eventual mutiny of the sailors of the German High Seas Fleet in early November 1918, and recollections of one of the ...