The Man Who Bought a Navy

A Talk By John Hayes

Brighton Marina Yacht Club 8:30pm 28^th May

In 1919 the pride of the German nation their High Seas Fleet was scuttled in Scapaflow. Salvage experts at the time said that it would be near impossible to raise the wrecks but against massive odds one man who had never salvaged a ship bought the sunken fleet and over period of six years raised ship after ship.