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Yesterday's Witness: The Great Scuttle

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

On Midsummer Day 1919 one of the most extraordinary episodes in the history of the sea took place in Scapa Flow, the famous anchorage in the Orkney Islands. Seventy-four ships of the German High Seas Fleet, at that time the world's second greatest navy, scuttled themselves in a calculated act of defiance.
Tonight's film sees this unique event through the eyes of three people who watched it happen, and one man who actively helped it to happen:
Mrs Rosetta Groundwater, William Waterson, Captain R. C. V. Ross, Vizeadmiral Friedrich Ruge

Contributors

Interviewee:
Rosetta Groundwater
Interviewee:
William Waterson
Interviewee:
Captain R. C. V. Ross
Interviewee:
Vizeadmiral Friedrich Ruge
Producer:
Stephen Peet
Director:
Patricia Meehan
Source: Radio Times

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