Orkney Museum

Inspired by the Huntscarth Clothing, Orkney Museum. Poems by Lydia Harris The Orkney Museum is not only the islands’ treasure house that holds precious artefacts from prehistory and historical times, but is also a valuable resource for creativity. Many pieces have been reproduced as jewellery, artists sketch them, musicians drawn on a story as inspiration […]

The Scuttling of the German Fleet: 2019 Summer Exhibition at the Orkney Museum. Panel 6. Salvage A German ship raised using compressed air. Admiral von Trotha (right) welcomes Rear Admiral von Reuter and the German sailors on their arrival in Wilhelmshaven on 31st January 1920. While von Reuter had saved national pride with the scuttling,

The Scuttling of the German Fleet: 2019 Summer Exhibition at the Orkney Museum. Panel 5. The Murder of Kuno Eversberg Kuno Eversberg’s grave. Postcard of SMS Frankfurt. The light cruiser SMS Frankfurt in Scapa Flow, 1918. Kuno Eversberg was a mechanic onboard. The Murder of Kuno Eversberg At five minutes past midnight on the 24

The Scuttling of the German Fleet: 2019 Summer Exhibition at the Orkney Museum. Panel 5. The Aftermath Surrendering German sailors. Aftermath The chaos that followed the scuttling saw acts of violence that the German government declared as war crimes. Seven men were killed that day, one died of his wounds the following day. One German

The Scuttling of the German Fleet: 2019 Summer Exhibition at the Orkney Museum. Panel 4. Eyewitness Accounts Fleet tender Flying Kestrel. The German ships in Scapa Flow. Tom Kent Collection, Orkney Library & Archive. The 137 feet long tug and passenger tender Flying Kestrel was commandeered by the Admiralty during World War I and used

The Scuttling of the German Fleet: 2019 Summer Exhibition at the Orkney Museum. Panel 3, Part 3. The Scuttling SMS Bayern sinking by the stern, 21st June 1919. Orkney Library & Archive. 4th Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet on exercises in Scpap Flow. The departure of the 1st Battle Squadron on the morning of

The crew of the battlecruiser SMS Hindenburg in Scapa Flow, Easter 1919. Courtesy of Aglef Kaiser The crew of the battlecruiser SMS Hindenburg in Scapa Flow, Easter 1919. Courtesy of Aglef Kaiser (see the blog post ‘Rare Photographs of Scapa Flow’) German destroyers in Scapa Flow. Orkney Library & Archive. German sailors fishing off the

The Scuttling of the German Fleet: 2019 Summer Exhibition at the Orkney Museum. Panel 1, Part 2. Naval Mutiny 1st and 2nd German Battleship Squadron, with light cruisers. German Torpedo Boats (Destroyers) on maneuvers. Naval Mutiny There had been growing resentment among the sailors of the High Seas Fleet on the run up to the

The Scuttling of the German Fleet: 2019 Summer Exhibition at the Orkney Museum. Panel 2, Part 2. To Scapa Flow The German Interned Squadron in Scapa Flow. Tom Kent Collection, Orkney Library & Archive. The battlecruiser SMS Seydlitz on its arrival in the Firth of Forth. To Scapa Flow From Rosyth the Interned Squadron were

The Scuttling of the German Fleet: 2019 Summer Exhibition at the Orkney Museum. Panel 2, Part 1. Operation ZZ SMS Kaiser on its way to the Firth of Forth, 21st November 1018. Orkney Library & Archive. Hochseeflotte, the German High Seas Fleet before the war. By the time of the Armistice, the German ships were