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Monday 28 November 2016

German battleship Bayern raised unexpectedly from the sea bottom according to the Dutch newspaper Limburger koerier dated 30 January 1937

Bayern-class

An item reported that the former German battleship Bayern s(1) scuttled by her crew in 1918 at Scapa Flow [Orkney Islands 21 June 1919) unexpectedly raised from a depth of 40 metres the sea bottom to the surface. After a half hour she sunk again.

Note
1. This can’t be the Bayern while she was already salvaged in 1934 and broken up.