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Admiral of the Fleet Lord Jellicoe of Scapa, until recently Governor General of New Zealand, was created an earl and chose as his second title Viscount Brocas of Southampton. Earl Jellicoe is the last of the supreme War leaders to receive an earldom...
British workmen engaged off Scapa Flow in breaking up a scuttled German warship came across the bodies of five German officers and seamen, who were thought not to have been warned when the German crews sank their ships on June...
Arriving at the age of 65, too old to be an active admiral, Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, onetime Admiral of the Fleet, has retired, as was announced by the Admiralty last week...
...June 21, 1919, the German fleet lay at anchor in Scapa Flow. Its pride had long since been broken and it lay captive with only skeleton crews of Germans aboard. In accordance with a preconcerted plan, the Germans opened the sea cocks, let their High Seas Fleet sink to the bottom. There were some 74 ships at anchor at the time and many of them sank before the British could beach them...
...until 1920 was much accomplished owing to the greater need for apparatus and divers at Scapa Flow. By that time the Laurentic had broken up and proved a mass of tangled ironwork. During 1920 only eight bars of bullion were recovered...