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Scapa - Britain's Famous Wartime Naval Base (Paperback, New edition)
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Scapa - Britain's Famous Wartime Naval Base (Paperback, New edition)
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Loot Price R498
Discovery Miles 4 980
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Scapa Flow was one of the world’s great naval bases and the scene
of many of the major events of twentieth-century naval history.
During both World Wars, the Royal Navy made Scapa the home for its
capital ships, and thousands of servicemen and women were posted to
Orkney. From here the Grand Fleet sailed for Jutland in 1916, from
here the escorts for the Russian convoys set off, and it was in
this beautiful, bleak anchorage that the German High Seas fleet
committed the greatest act of suicide ever seen at sea – ‘The
Grand Scuttle’ – before being later raised and scrapped in the
most astonishing feat of maritime salvage in history. It was also
in Scapa that the last photographs of Kitchener were taken as he
boarded HMS Hampshire, shortly before she was sunk by mine off
Marwick Head. Scapa is also the grave of many who fought for their
country in both World Wars. In its silent waters lie the wrecks of
the battleship Vanguard, blown apart by an explosion in 1917, and
the Royal Oak, sunk by U-47 in a spectacular raid at the beginning
of World War II . Here the first Luftwaffe raids on Britain
occured, here too Italian prisoners-of-war built both the
spectacular Churchill causeways and the exquisite chapel on the
island of Lamb Holm. In this book, illustrated with over 130
archive photographs, James Miller traces the story of this
remarkable place, weaving together history, eyewitness accounts and
personal experience to capture the life and spirit of Scapa Flow
when it was home to thousands of service personnel and the most
powerful fleet in the world.
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