What is recorded here

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Sms V129: Peat Bay, Fara, 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 V129 was a German torpedo boat (V129) captured by the Royal Navy during World War I and later scuttled in Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919 as part of the mass scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet. It was lost without loss of life, and its wreck now lies in Peat Bay, Fara, Orkney, serving as a historically significant site linked to the post-war internment and scuttling of the German fleet.

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