Wartime shipwrecks will be further protected from scavengers under new safeguards. The Ministry of Defence announced that ...

U.K. Royal Navy bomb disposal experts have found a German torpedo from World War II at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys. The torpedo was found on the seabed March 1 after a recent routine sonar survey on ...

A moving service has been held to mar­­k 100 years since the Germans sank their own fleet in Scapa Flow. More than 50 of the 74 interned ships were scuttled in the waters off Orkney to prevent them ...

An extension of the bans on fishing for scallops in Scapa Flow, Orkney, and in waters off Jura and the south of Mull due to a build-up of naturally occurring shellfish toxins was announced today by ...

The vessel is believed to be a pinnace - a small boat which would have acted as a supply boat for larger ships. It is likely to have gone down with its parent ship when the German High Seas Fleet was ...