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Sms G92: Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow, Orkney

Destroyer (20th Century)-(1919)

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Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Sms G92: 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 G92 was a German UB III-type submarine (U-boat) surrendered to the Allies at the end of 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 submarines lost in the event, with no lives or significant cargo lost, and it now lies as a historical wreck within the protected waters of Orkney.

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