Sms S32: Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow, Orkney

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Sms S32: 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 S32 was a German SM S32 torpedo boat scuttled in Scapa Flow, Orkney, on 21 June 1919 during the internment of the German High Seas Fleet after World War I. It was one of 52 ships deliberately sunk by its crew under orders from Admiral Ludwig von Reuter; no lives were lost, and the wreck remains a significant archaeological site associated with the post-war naval history of the Royal Navy and the German Imperial Navy.