And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Looks like one of the German Battlecruisers scuttle at Scapa Flow. Could be Derfflinger, or Moltke. Maybe Hindenberg. I do know Derfflinger was raised upside down and drydocked that way for scrapping.
German battle cruiser Prince Regent Luitpold being salvaged from the mass scuttling at Scapa Flow. info here : https://www.gettyimages.fi/detail/uutiskuva/the-german-battle-cruiser-prinz-regent-luitpold-being-towed-uutiskuva/2664259
Video here ( from British Pathe newsreels ) : https://www.gettyimages.fi/detail/uutiskuva/the-german-battle-cruiser-prinz-regent-luitpold-being-towed-uutiskuva/2664259
More info about the salvage of the ships: "Long steel tubes containing airlocks were lowered down and welded to the ships hulls by divers. Some of these tubes were over 30m long. Air was then pumped into the hulls to begin forcing out the water. Workers would row up to a tube, climb down the inside, through the airlocks and work inside the ships whilst they lay on the seabed." from: https://addiator.blogspot.com/2005/02/forgotten-history-scapa-fl_110823866174264713.html
This looks like an ancient way to dry dock a boat.
ReplyDeleteAnd has been capsized for some time, they built a workshop on it! I wonder what all those tubes sticking out of it is about?
ReplyDeleteHistory of this photo please?
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/18cmr65/why_was_the_high_seas_fleet_scuttled_at_scapa/?rdt=36136
DeleteProbably ventilation tubes or lifts for workers inside the hull. Could be USS Oklahoma at Pearl?
DeleteNot the Oklahoma. She had a different screw configuration and hull lines.
DeleteThe Oklahoma was parbuckled in 1943. Wikipedia has some pics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parbuckle_salvage
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I have seen photos of the righting of the OKLAHOMA. That was extremely impressive!
DeleteHad to look up 'parbuckled'. Any day I learn something is a good day.
DeleteLooks like one of the German Battlecruisers scuttle at Scapa Flow. Could be Derfflinger, or Moltke. Maybe Hindenberg. I do know Derfflinger was raised upside down and drydocked that way for scrapping.
ReplyDeleteGerman battle cruiser Prince Regent Luitpold being salvaged from the mass scuttling at Scapa Flow. info here : https://www.gettyimages.fi/detail/uutiskuva/the-german-battle-cruiser-prinz-regent-luitpold-being-towed-uutiskuva/2664259
ReplyDeleteVideo here ( from British Pathe newsreels ) : https://www.gettyimages.fi/detail/uutiskuva/the-german-battle-cruiser-prinz-regent-luitpold-being-towed-uutiskuva/2664259
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteIt's SMS Kaiser.
ReplyDeleteHere's a Youtube link...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9Mbi2Ve9vE
More info about the salvage of the ships:
ReplyDelete"Long steel tubes containing airlocks were lowered down and welded to the ships hulls by divers. Some of these tubes were over 30m long. Air was then pumped into the hulls to begin forcing out the water. Workers would row up to a tube, climb down the inside, through the airlocks and work inside the ships whilst they lay on the seabed."
from: https://addiator.blogspot.com/2005/02/forgotten-history-scapa-fl_110823866174264713.html