Shipwrecks: When History Resurfaces
Scapa Flow: Graveyard of the German Fleet
Season 1 Episode 1
Shortly after the First World War had ended, 52 German warships were sunk in one day off the Orkney Islands as a deliberate act of sabotage ordered by a German commander who refused to let his ships become the spoils of war.
Shipwrecks: When History Resurfaces airs on Sky History at 1:00 PM, Sunday 26 May.
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