After the armistice 11. November 1918 between Germany and the Allied, it was decided that the German navy should be interned in the British navy base at Scapa Flow. The fleet with 5 battle cruisers, 11 battleships, 8 cruisers and 50 destroyers arrived Scapa Flow on 25. November 1918, and occupied the whole area from Hoy Sound and all the way down to Lyness. The German fleet was guarded by the British Grand Fleet which had Scapa Flow as their main base. While the peace negotiations between Germany and the Allied went on, the German on board the ships began to be suspicious that the British wanted to confiscate the fleet. On 21. June 1919 the commander Ludwig Von Reuter issued the order to launch "paragraph 11", the code for the fleet to scuttle. Within few hours almost the whole mighty German fleet disappeared in the deep, with exceptions of a few destroyers and smaller units that the British navy managed to put ashore or avoid being scuttled. In the years that followed and all the way until the outbreak of second world war, most of the wrecks were salvaged by different companies, but still the wrecks of the Markgraf, König, Kronprinz Wilhelm, Brummer, Dresden, Cöln, Karlsruhe and several smaller units rests in the deep outside Hoy. The wreck of Markgraf tilted over because of the heavy gun towers while she sank, and rest today with her keel up on a depth of twenty four to forty two meters straight north for the island Cava in Scapa Flow...