From Rosyth the Interned Squadron were sent to Scapa Flow, a destination that they didn’t know about before sailing from Germany. The first group of 20 destroyers arrived in Orkney on the 23^rd November. More ships came over the next four days until the final group of four battleships and three light cruisers arrived on the 27^th. Between the 6^th and 13^th December, 14,975 officers and men were repatriated back to Germany. Another 2,700 sailors would be sent home on the 18th June 1919, just three days before the scuttling. The Admiralty had refused to have any dealing with the Soldiers’ Council representatives, which greatly annoyed them. Von Reuter took the opportunity of having the most radical members of the crews repatriated to Germany, but still the remaining Soldiers’ Council members made life as difficult as possible for him and his officers. It was particularly bad on von Reuter’s flagship, SMS Friedrich der Grosse. On the 6th December, the battleship SMS König and the light cruiser SMS Dresden arrived directly from Germany, having been repaired. They were joined by the destroyer V129, the replacement for the V30, which had sunk on the voyage over. The battleship SMS Baden was sent as a replacement for the battle-cruiser SMS Mackensen, which the British mistakenly thought had been built, but was never completed.