The Great Scuttle

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