The complete list of capital ships (apart from destroyers) interned at Scapa is shown below. The battleships "König" and "Baden," and cruiser "Dresden," were later arrivals.
| BATTLESHIPS | |
|---|---|
| Bayern | Kronprinz Wilhelm |
| Markgraf | Friedrich der Grosse |
| König | König Albert |
| Kaiserin | Prinzregent Luitpold |
| Kaiser | Baden |
| Grosser Kurfürst | |
| BATTLE CRUISERS | |
| Hindenburg | Von der Tann |
| Derfflinger | Moltke |
| Seydlitz | |
| LIGHT CRUISERS | |
| Brummer | Emden |
| Bremse | Karlsruhe |
| Dresden | Nurnberg |
| Köln | Frankfurt |
During the period of their internment, communication between the German ships and our own Fleet was restricted to a minimum, and no one from our own ships was allowed on board the interned vessels unless on duty of an urgent nature. The Germans were required to victual and store their own ships from Germany, coal and water only being supplied locally. As German warships were not constructed for living aboard for long periods (the sailors being mostly accommodated in barracks when in harbour), the crews at Scapa must have had a rather unenviable time of it, though there was a certain element of poetic justice in interning them in the region where for so long our own Fleet had kept its lonely vigil. As one of their officers remarked in writing home and describing the bleakness and desolation of Scapa: "If the English have stood this for four years, they deserve to have won the war."
The German ships were patrolled by a number of drifters—a somewhat ignominious guard for the much-vaunted German Fleet.
The Germans' love of music was in evidence even at Scapa, and it was somewhat strange and at times rather pathetic to hear the unfamiliar strains of "Die Wacht am Rhein" and "Die Lorelei" rising from the German ships, some of which still retained their bands.
German Battle Cruiser "Seydlitz" entering Hoxa Boom, 25th November, 1918.
