Scapa Flow.
Volume I tells the story of World War I, and how a remote group of islands off the north of Scotland became 'the principal maritime centre of a world in conflict' and one of the most strongly fortified and most heavily controlled areas in the country.
The defences of Britain's great fleet anchorage 1914-45.
The story of Ernest Cox, a Wolverhampton-born scrap merchant, who led the biggest salvage operation in history to recover the scuttled German ships in Scapa Flow.
The history of Scapa Flow, Orkney's magnificent sheltered harbour.
Get this book and The Man Who Bought a Navy for £18 when you buy both at checkout. A biography of Vice Admiral von Reuter and the German navy leading to World War One, and a narrative of the salvage of the German Imperial fleet.
The story of the "Grand Scuttle" of the German High Seas Fleet in 1919.
HMS Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, infamously torpedoed at anchor by the German submarine U-47 on 14th October, 1939
Jame's 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.
Get this book and Scapa Flow - From Graveyard to Resurrection for £18 when you buy both at checkout. The story of what is regarded as the greatest achievement in the history of marine salvage.
Landscapes of Scapa Flow War - Peace - Nature By Tom Muir and Scapa Flow Partnership
This is the story of the ships of Scapa Flow, their sinking and their salvage, using many previously unseen images of the recovery and subsequent removal of many of the German battleships and cruisers to Rosyth dockyard in Fife for breaking up. By Campbell McCutcheon.
Completely rewritten, updated and expanded edition of this classic dive book.