Cox's navy: salvaging the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow 1924-1931
by Booth, Tony.
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BookPublisher: Pen & Sword Maritime 2005ISBN: 9781844151813; 1844151816.Classification number: 627.703 BOOSubject(s): Cox | Salvage -- Scotland -- Scapa Flow | Scapa Flow Scuttling, Scotland, 1919 | Germany -- History, NavalSubject: On a mid-summer's day in 1919, the interned German Grand Fleet was scuttled by their crews at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands. This book describes the biggest salvage operation ever undertaken, and the role played by Ernest Cox, a Wolverhampton-born scrap merchant.
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| 625.26 TAY Life in a loco works: | 627.3109 WOO Walking over the waves: | 627.7 BOW Man who bought a navy | 627.703 BOO Cox's navy: | 628.1509 HOD Roman aqueducts and water supply | 629.13 MUL Sun, Sand & Silver Wings | 629.133 BOW Curtiss aircraft 1907-1947 |
Bibliography: p. 197-198
Includes index
On a mid-summer's day in 1919, the interned German Grand Fleet was scuttled by their crews at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands. This book describes the biggest salvage operation ever undertaken, and the role played by Ernest Cox, a Wolverhampton-born scrap merchant.
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