Scapa Flow

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It is the greatest loss of tonnage recorded in a single day in history. Most of the fleet was later raised in one of the most ambitious salvage operations ever undertaken, begun by the engineer Ernest Cox, who had never raised a ship before and whose methods are still in use. Seven large ships remain on the seabed: the battleships König, Markgraf and Kronprinz Wilhelm and the light cruisers Brummer, Köln, Karlsruhe and Dresden. The thirteen German sailors killed that day are regarded as the last casualties of the First World War.