Koln, light cruiser wreck dive, Scapa Flow
The light cruiser Koln was the last of the 74 ships of the surrendered German High Seas Fleet to reach Scapa Flow, but among the first to obey the order to scuttle. All 5531 tons of her went down, sternfirst with a starboard heel, and all 510ft went out of sight at 1.50pm on 21 June, 1919, writes Kendall McDonald.
The Köln, named after the city of Cologne, did not have much of a war record. She was built at the Blohm and Voss Hamburg shipyard to replace the sunken Coln (German spellings changed around this time) and launched in October, 1916, but was not completed and taken into service until January, 1918.