Charles Bunday

Charles Bunday witnessed the Great Scuttle. Here are some photos that he took during the event. The comments are his.

	Charles Bunday
	"SMS Emden with Capt. Backhouse and staff on board."
	"SMS Emden after being beached."
	"SMS Frankfurt after being beached"
	"SMS Frankfurt."
	"All that can now be seen of S.M.S Hindenberg with S.M.S Nurnberg in distance"
	"S.M.S Seydlitz lying on her side. This is all that can now be seen of her"
	"SMS Baden being floated. With SMS Emden on left and SMS Frankfurt on right"
	"SMS Bremen after capsizing when beached"
	"German prisoners in life boats after scuttling their ships. Some of the boats were fired on by destroyers for refusing to fly a white flag. About 50 were killed"
	"German Prisoners on the Quarterdeck of HMS Royal Sovereign"
	"German Prisoners on the Quarterdeck of HMS Royal Sovereign"
	The Royal Sovereign

"Also in this album are pictures of the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet on June 21st 1919. I was present on board HMS Royal Sovereign. I was also present at the surrender of the German High Fleet on board HMS Princess Royal. Photographs of which were not available. HMS Princess Royal was a unit of the Battle Cruiser Squadron known at the time as Beattie's Cat Squadron because we always did our prowling around at night, though the Battle of Jutland was fought in daylight and the Cat Squadron and 1st Battle Squadron were the only big ships to meet and engage the High Seas Fleet. The main Battle Fleet to the best of my knowledge and belief didn't even see them. They weren't fast enough to get there in time. Though our light cruisers and destroyers engaged them and suffered losses as heavy as the ten big ships who engaged the whole High Seas Fleet."

Charles Bunday's Album