| The German World War I High Sea Fleet triggers the imagination of many. The scuttling of the interned fleet at Scapa Flow is still the biggest scuttling ever. SMS Kronprinz was one of the 4 big battleships of the German High Sea Fleet.. During the scuttling on 21 june 1919, she has gone almost completely turtle, leaving a gap between the deck and the seabed. This gap enables divers to see one of the massive gun barrels. Unfortunately, the light conditions under the ship made it impossible for my little camera to record this big tube of steel. The ship moving from right to left in the archive material in this video (the third shot at the start of the video) looks like a ship of the same class as SMS Kronprinz, maybe she is the very same vessel. |
