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...month the Royal Navy destroyers Saumarez and Volage, cruising in the same Strait, ran into mines, were crippled. Casualties totaled 38 dead, 50 injured. British indignation was heated. Said a high-ranking Royal Navy officer: "There's no difference between this and bombing the British Home Fleet at Scapa. ... In other times we'd have had a British squadron off the coast of the nation involved, and by now a division or two ashore making sure that whoever was responsible was going to pay in more ways than...
This time Germany had no surface fleet to warrant a show like last war's scuttling at Scapa Flow. Her two largest combat vessels still afloat were cruisers, the Prinz Eugen and the Nürnberg. They signed off by shelling Copenhagen, then gave up to the British in Copenhagen harbor-along with scores of smaller warships and 160,000 tons of merchant shipping. Several destroyers surrendered in Norway...
...them in 1905 crusty Admiral Togo smashed the Russian fleet. Presumably the submarine knocking on the door last week was American. It had achieved one of World War IPs most daring submarine penetrations of enemy waters, a feat ranking with German Günther Prien's entry at Scapa Flow, the Jap invasion of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. raid in Tokyo...
...event was, in its way, as impressive as the very different spectacles provided by other navies in similar circumstances. In 1919, rebellious German sailors scuttled the German fleet interned at Scapa Flow. Last year the French, caught by the Germans in port, scuttled their fleet at Toulon. Last week the Italian Navy, in good order and with unheroic dignity, delivered its ships to the victors...
Proud Loss. The self-destruction of the French Fleet on that Friday morning was surpassed only by the German scuttling of the Kaiser's High Sea Fleet in June 1919 at Scapa Flow. Though it did not alter the balance of world naval power, it relieved the Allies finally of the threat that Adolf Hitler might gain the ships-which he unquestionably had attempted to do-and use them in the Battle of the Mediterranean. Since most of the French vessels had reportedly been blown up, there was little chance that the Germans could salvage them for their...