I imagine Hindenburg missed her chance to slug it out with the Royal Navy, so she decided to "fight" the Englishman Cox's attempts to salvage her, and the various ships around them caught strays.
I suspect it was not a matter of missing her chance. Jellico reported the Grand Fleet would be ready to fight the next day. The Germans knew they were beaten and declined to try again.
I read a book about this operation way back when I was a kid. Mid 60s or so. Damned if I can remember the name of it, It wasn't Cox's Navy, that came out in 2011. If anyone knows the title please let me know.
There is a book "Jutland to Junkyard" by S.C.George with a lot of pictures of the raising and scrapping of the ships (but not the scrapping of SMS Hindenburg). It also describes the battle of Jutland and the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow. Maybe the book you mean? It's also available in german "Vom Skagerrak nach Scapa Flow". Greetings from Germany.
Unfortunately, there don’t seem to be any. Derfflinger, yes, but not Hindenburg. I’m sure *someone* took photos, but they either haven’t survived or are in an attic somewhere.
Big fan of yours. This was great vid that in books was a paragraph or two . You did a fantastic job on expanding the story. Keep it up . If I can, what is your day job?
same name as the blimp that burned....a zeplin maybe/? whats nutty was cities were planning to have these things dock on top of sky scrapers but im prob mixing up the story lol
After reading the book "The Sleepwalkers" by the Australian Prof. Christopher Clark you may ask yourself with what right did the Brits intern these ships? Every nation was responsible for the outbreak of the war but the Brits portrayed it as if Germany was the only offender and of course demanded to get the fleet. But ok, this wasn´t their first sugarcoating in their history.
I don't think that Britain wanted the German ships, as they already had more of their own than they needed or could afford post WW1. The ships were supposed to be distributed to the various Allied nations as part of the peace negotiations. So with Britain not needing their share, having what would have been the other nations shares removed from play, was probably a good result for Britain. As it prevented the other nations from getting a cheap naval boost, that would eat into the Royal Navies numerical supremacy. As for what right did Britain have to intern the ships, it was agreed to by the Germans as one of the conditions of the armistice. That the ships would be interned at Scapa Flow, until their future was decided at the end of war peace settlement negotiations.
@@meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee2 Well..technically it was more like this"Britain nicely asked everyone,including neutrals,NOT to let the germans be interned..."..Considering that the crews SHOULD have been treated as prisoners of war,while at Scapa
Yeah, kinda the opposite of how the French do things. The Germans fight til the bitter end, and only then do they surrender. But they refuse to give up their ships. The French throw in the towel from the get-go, and their allies have to sink their fleet just in case they decide to hand the ships over to the enemy.
It was an Airship(doped fabrric covered metal skeleton containing compartments each holding huge bags of lighter-than-air gas(hydrogen was cheapest & readily available but one spark could turn the thing into a fireball)
There are various jurisdictions around the world that have different interpretations on the property rights of abandoned vessels around the world and the those that salvage them. But it's very unlikely that surrendered countries have any legal rights over a warship that they have abandoned in the territorial waters of their belligerent's country. German tanks abandoned in Russia don't belong to Hitler's estate.
