Imperial German High Seas Fleet

On a hazy morning, the Battle Squadrons of the German Imperial High Seas Fleet sets sail to challenge the might of the Royal Navy. Sooner or later both fleets felt the war would be decided in the greatest naval engagement in world history. Till then, German naval officers would toast "Der Tag" for the day German seapower would replace the Royal Navy as the true power of the seas. The sea battle would come in 1916 at Jutland, a tactical German victory but a stratigic British victory. The High Seas fleet would never again meet the Royal Navy in line of battle. Rather it would slowly waste a way in harbour, its finest men siphoned off to the underseas fleet. In the end the surface navy would lead the way to the revolt that forced Kaiser Wilhelm II to abdicate. After beening forced into internment at Scapa Flow in Scotland the High Seas Fleet ploted its own self destruction. In a single afternoon, under the eyes of its British guards, the majority of the fleet was scuttled by its German crews. Through its death the honor of the HighSeas Fleet was restored.