Hms Vanguard: Scapa Flow, Orkney

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Hms Vanguard: Scapa Flow, Orkney as Battleship (20th Century)-(1917). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

HMS *Vanguard* was a British battleship lost in 1917 during a gunnery exercise at Scapa Flow, Orkney, when a magazine explosion sank her shortly after leaving port. The disaster resulted in the deaths of 844 crew members, making it one of the worst peacetime naval disasters in British history; the wreck is now a protected site and a significant maritime memorial.