SMS Kronprinz Wilhelm
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After
the armistice 11.November 1918 between Germany and the
Allies ( Entente ), it was decided that the German Navy
should be interned at Scapa Flow. The fleet with 5 battle
cruisers, 11 battleships, 8 cruisers and 50 other ships
arrived Scapa Flow in late November 1918, and occupied the
whole area from Hoy Sound down to Lyness. The fleet was
guarded by the British Home Fleet. While the peace
negotiations went on, the German on board the ships began
to be suspicious that the British wanted to confiscate the
fleet. 21.June 1919 the commander Von Reuter issued the
order to launch "Paragraph 11", the code for the fleet to
be scuttled. Within a few hours the whole German fleet
disappeared. In the years that followed most of the wrecks
were raised or salvaged. The battleship capsized because
of the heavy gun towers while she sank and rest today on a
depth of 12 to 35 meter north of Cava.
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 Picture: SMS Kronprinz Wilhelm Originally from skovheim.org 
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