In 1919, German crews sank 52 warships at Scotland’s Scapa Flow; decades later their pre-nuclear steel became valuable for radiation-sensitive equipment
1st and 2nd Battleship Squadrons and small cruisers, German High Seas Fleet, Keil. Fifty-two Imperial German warships sank in the icy waters off Orkney in June 1919 after their crews deliberately scuttled them to prevent their capture. Decades later, steel recovered from those wrecks became a valuable material for modern science, medical imaging, and space…
