On June 8, 1940, just four days after the evacuation of Dunkirk, the United Kingdom's Royal Navy suffered its worst loss of World War II when its HMS Glorious aircraft ... heading to the small British ...

The site where German sailors deliberately scuttled their High Seas Fleet at the end of the First World War has been awarded legal protection in Scotland. Scapa Flow has been designated a Historic ...

But defeat left the fleet scuttled at Scapa Flow and the Treaty of Versailles reduced Germany’s naval power to a token force.

Legal protection has been announced to preserve what remains of World War One warships in Scapa Flow off Orkney. The 52-strong German High Seas fleet was scuttled - deliberately sunk - by its ...

Legal protection for Scapa Flow site where German fleet was scuttled during First World War The Scottish government said Scapa Flow includes the "largest concentration of warship wrecks" in the UK.