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Originally Posted by desirableroasted
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.
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Not finding the one I read at uboat.net earlier
-- it was much more concise than the article
The Bull of Scapa Flow. However, this page sums it up:
http://www.u47.org/english/u47_sca.asp?page=7
Looking over that section I don't come away with the same impression I had earlier.