What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Sms S131 [secondary Location]: 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 S131 was a German destroyer (Type 1913) that was part of the Imperial German Navy and was scuttled in Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919 during the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet. It was one of 52 ships deliberately sunk by its own crew to prevent capture after World War I; no lives were lost, and it now lies as a historically significant wreck in Gutter Sound, Orkney.
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