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Originally Posted by krashkart
Just read on uboat.net today that the sinking of Royal Oak motivated the RN to abandon Scapa Flow as a naval base.
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Link? Coz I have always wondered if they decided Scapa was fundamentally unsecure.
When it was pretty clear the German battle fleet really couldn't get out, or have a role to play, I would suspect Scapa became far less important, and many capital ships could be employed elsewhere.
But Churchill certainly used resources to block the Scapa entrances, and put in a pretty difficult minefield up the coast.
The base itself was closed in 1956.