Sms B111: Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow, Orkney

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Sms B111: Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow, Orkney as Destroyer (20th Century)-(1919). 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.

SMS B111 was a German U-boat (U-111) scuttled in Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919 following the internment of the German High Seas Fleet after World War I. It was one of 52 ships deliberately sunk by its own crew under the supervision of the Royal Navy; no lives were lost, and it holds significance as part of the historical event known as the Scapa Flow internment and scuttling.