 After Germany 's defeat in the war and the signing of the Armistice in November 1918 , Markgraf and most of the capital ships of the High Seas Fleet were interned by the Royal Navy in Scapa Flow . The ships were disarmed and reduced to skeleton crews while the Allied powers negotiated the final version of the Treaty of Versailles . On 21 June 1919 , days before the treaty was signed , the commander of the interned fleet , Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter , ordered the fleet to be scuttled to ensure that the British would not be able to seize the ships . Unlike most of the scuttled ships , Markgraf was never raised for scrapping ; the wreck is still sitting on the bottom of the bay . 
 After Germany <a href='null_genetive' title='1'><mark>'s</mark></a>defeat in the war and the signing of the Armistice in November 1918 , Markgraf and most of the capital ships of the High Seas Fleet <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>were</mark></a> interned by the Royal Navy in Scapa Flow . The ships <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>were</mark></a> disarmed and reduced to skeleton crews while the Allied powers negotiated the final version of the Treaty of Versailles . On 21 June 1919 , days before the treaty was signed , the commander of the interned fleet , Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter , ordered the fleet to be scuttled to ensure that the British would <a href='negative_concord' title='4'><mark>not</mark></a><a href='negative_concord' title='5'><mark>be</mark></a> able to seize the ships . Unlike most of the scuttled ships , Markgraf was never raised for <a href='negative_concord' title='6'><mark>scrapping</mark></a> ; the wreck is still sitting on the bottom of the bay . 
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