Sms B112: Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow, Orkney

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Sms B112: 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 B112 was a German U-boat surrendered to the Allies after World War I and later scuttled in Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919 during the internment of the German High Seas Fleet. It was one of 52 ships deliberately sunk by their crews in protest against Allied restrictions, with no reported loss of life; its wreck remains a historically significant site associated with the end of the war and the subsequent Treaty of Versailles.