scuttling
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thumb|right|upright=0.590|The Monument to the Sunken Ships, dedicated to ships destroyed during the siege of Sevastopol during the [[Crimean War, designed by Amandus Adamson]]
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- Notable historical examples
- Skuldelev ships (around 1070)
- Cog near Kampen (early 15th century)
- Hernán Cortés (1519)
- HMS ''Sapphire'' (1696)
- HMS ''Endeavour'' (1778)
- Siege of Yorktown (1781)
- HMS ''Bounty'' (1790)
- Chesapeake Bay Flotilla (1814)
- Jan van Speyk (1831)
- Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol (1854)
- The Clotilda
- USS ''Merrimack''/CSS ''Virginia'' (1861)
- Stone Fleet (1861–1862)
- Peruvian fleet at El Callao (1881)
- USS ''Merrimac'' (1898)
- Port Arthur (1904–1905)
- SMS ''Dresden'' (1915)
- Zeebrugge Raid (1918)
- German fleet at Scapa Flow (1919)
- Washington Naval Treaty (1922)
- ''Admiral Graf Spee'' (1939)
- ''San Giorgio'' at Tobruk (1941)
- Blockade of Massawa (1941)
- ''Bismarck'' (1941)
- Coral Sea and Midway (1942)
- French fleet at Toulon (1942)
- Danish fleet (1943)
- Allied landing in Normandy (1944)
- Operation Deadlight (1945–1946)
- Japanese submarines (1946)
- Contemporary era
- In popular culture
- References
- Bibliography
thumb|right|upright=0.590|The Monument to the Sunken Ships, dedicated to ships destroyed during the siege of Sevastopol during the [[Crimean War, designed by Amandus Adamson]]
Scuttling is the act of deliberately sinking a ship by allowing water to flow into the hull, typically by its crew opening holes in its hull.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “scuttling” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.