This great harbour Scapa Flow
Hewison, W. S.1985
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Known by mariners since Viking times as a safe anchorage in notoriously savage waters, Scapa Flow is the seaway that runs between the Orkney mainland and the island of Hoy. As the northern base of the Royal Navy and Allied fleets in two world wars, it witnessed some of the most seminal events in modern naval history. It was from here that The Grand Fleet set off in 1916 to do battle at Jutland; it was from that Lord Kitchener sailed to his death aboard the Hampshire; it was here that the surrendered German fleet was scuttled in May 1919; and it was here that 800 sailors lost their lives in October 1939 when HMS Royal Oak was torpedoed by a German submarine
Main title:
This great harbour Scapa Flow / W. S. Hewison.
Author:
Hewison, W. S., author
Publisher:
Stromness : The Orkney Press, 1985.Stromness : The Orkney Press, 1985.
Collation:
[10], vii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.[10], vii, 390p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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Notes:
Link id: 72126.Includes bibliography and indexes.
ISBN:
09076181119780907618119
Language:
English
Index terms:
NAVAL BASES ROYAL NAVY ORKNEY WORLD WAR I WORLD WAR II BRITISH WARSHIPS GERMAN NAVY GERMAN WARSHIPS AERODROMES GRIMSETTER 1940-1945 SKEABRAE AEROPLANES MILITARY AIRSHIPS ARMY LIFE 1914-1918 1939-1945 BALLOONS KITE BATTERIES LONGHOPE STROMNESS NESS BATTERY BATTLE OF JUTLAND, 1916 BATTLE OF KNARSTON, 1154 BATTLE OF SUMMERDALE, 1529 ASQUITH, Herbert PRIME MINISTER VISITS BLOCKSHIPS BOOM DEFENSES
BRN:
76422
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