  :Could you add the point about having to sail under the White Ensign to the main text with supporting references, - other accounts mention only that the Imperial flag was ordered hauled down upon the fleet's arrival in the Firth of Forth (though one can see that for practical purposes there might have had to be some means of distinguishing a fleet that had come out to surrender from one that had come out to go down fighting). The deplorable shooting of the nine German sailors has always been well known and generally attributed to panic and outrage amongst the handful of RN guard-boats present. The article as it stands seems to me to be a balanced account but you should not hesitate to edit doubtful passages - most readers will not think to go looking through the talk page for clarification.   