The German battleship Bayern which was scuttled in 1919 together with other German warships at Scapa Flow appeared one of these days suddenly at the surface after nearly 15 years lying 40 metres deep at the sea bottom.(1) The rusty and demolished armoured gun turrets were during a half hour visible when the wreck without making any noise sunk again in the deep.
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1. She was of the Bayern-class laid down at the Howaldstwerke at Kiel, Germany on 20 August 1913, launched on 18 February 1915, commissioned on 18 March 1916, scuttled 21 June 1919, salvaged in September 1934 and broken up in 1935 at Rosyth according to the website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Bayern_(1915). According to the website http://ccom.unh.edu/scapa/bayern.html was she raised on 1 September 1933. The websites http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?60890 and http://www.scapamap.org/wrecks/bayern.php reported that the four main turrets were not salvaged due to breaking free of the hull and are still lying on the bottom. This website said that she was salvaged in in September 1934. So either the newspaper was mistaken the Bayern for another ship or the incident happened earlier in time.
