Clock salvaged from German ship scuttled at Scapa Flow re-emerges at Sherborne auction

On a single day in 1919 the Imperial German Navy achieved the impressive feat of sinking 52 vessels. Unfortunately, they were its own ships.

At 10.30am on June 21 Admiral von Reuter’s seemingly innocuous message Paragraph Eleven; confirm w…

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