Scapa Flow
/ˌskɑːpə ˈfləʊ/
/ˌskɑːpə ˈfləʊ/
- an area of the North Sea surrounded by several of the Orkney Islands and used as a base by the British navy until 1956. Two famous incidents happened there: in 1919 a number of captured German ships were sunk by their own crews, and in 1939 a German submarine sank a British ship, the Royal Oak.
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Scapa Flow