CHAPTER 6: The Blockships: II. THE CHURCHILL BARRIER BLOCKSHIPS: NO 3 BARRIER.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Macdonald, Rod
- Source
- Dive Scapa Flow; 2017, p300-303, 4p
- Subject
- DIVING
SHIPWRECKS
SCUTTLING of warships
HISTORY
- Language
Chapter 6 of the book “Dive Scapa Flow" by Rod Macdonald is presented. It presents a guide to diving at the Scapa Flow, the site of the scuttling of the German fleet at the end of World War I. It highlights the German naval history during the first World War focusing on the scuttling of High Seas Fleet of warships and the most well known ship wreck site. It discusses barriers, a series of four causeways in Orkney, Scotland that has several ship wrecks from the 1st and 2nd world war.