It was the greatest gathering of warships the world had ever witnessed. Nine German battleships, five battlecruisers, seven light cruisers and 49 destroyers - the most modern ships of the German ...

On October 15, 1914, a German sub captained by U-boat ace Otto Weddigen attacked the HMS Hawke, killing 524 crew members, ...

The Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I, prohibited Germany's navy from building large warships ... the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. Operation Rheinübung, as it was codenamed, would ...

The team consulted the war diary of the U-boat that sank Hawke, as well as the logs of the nearest warships to the cruiser ..

Debris left on the seabed following the salvaging of German ... warships that were salvaged from Scapa Flow in the inter war period. "It is very exciting to see divers from all over the world ...