Scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow

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Scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow
Part of the First World War
SMS Bayern sinking.jpg
SMS Bayern sinking by the stern
Date 21 June 1919
Location Scapa Flow, Orkney, Scotland
Result Sinking of ten battleships, five battlecruisers, five cruisers and 32 destroyers
Belligerents
Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg Royal Navy War Ensign of Germany 1903-1918.svg German High Seas Fleet
Commanders and leaders
Sydney Fremantle Ludwig von Reuter
Casualties and losses
None Most of the fleet scuttled; nine killed; 16 wounded

The scuttling of the German fleet took place at the Royal Navy's base at Scapa Flow, in Scotland, after the end of the First World War. The High Seas Fleet had been interned there under the terms of the Armistice whilst negotiations took place over the fate of the ships. Fearing that all of the ships would be seized and divided amongst the allied powers, the German commander, Admiral Ludwig von Reuter, decided to scuttle the fleet.

The scuttling was carried out on 21 June 1919. Intervening British guard ships were able to beach a number of the ships, but 52 of the 74 interned vessels sank. Many of the wrecks were salvaged over the next few years and were towed away for scrapping. The few that remain are popular diving sites.

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[edit] Background

The signing of the Armistice on 11 November 1918, at Compiègne, France, effectively ended the First World War. The Allied powers had agreed that Germany's U-boat fleet should be surrendered without the possibility of return, but were unable to agree upon a course of action regarding the German surface fleet. The Americans suggested that the ships be interned in a neutral port until a final decision had been reached, but the two countries that were approached – Norway and Spain – both refused.[1] Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss suggested that the fleet be interned at Scapa Flow with a skeleton crew of German sailors, and guarded in the interim by the Grand Fleet.[1]

The cruisers Emden, Frankfurt and Bremse entering Scapa Flow

The terms were transmitted to Germany on 12 November, instructing them to make the High Seas Fleet ready to sail by 18 November, or the Allies would occupy Heligoland.[1] On the night of 15 November, Rear-Admiral Hugo Meurer, the representative of Admiral Franz von Hipper, met Admiral David Beatty aboard Beatty's flagship, HMS Queen Elizabeth. Beatty presented Meurer with the terms, which were expanded at a second meeting the following day. The U-boats were to surrender to Rear-Admiral Reginald Tyrwhitt at Harwich, under the supervision of the Harwich Force.[1] The surface fleet was to sail to the Firth of Forth and surrender to Beatty. They would then be led to Scapa Flow and interned, pending the outcome of the peace negotiations. Meurer asked for an extension to the deadline, aware that the sailors were still in a mutinous mood (which had earlier led to the Wilhelmshaven mutiny), and that the officers might have difficulty in getting them to obey orders. Meurer eventually signed the terms after midnight.[1]

[edit] Surrender of the fleet

HMS Cardiff leads the High Seas Fleet into Rosyth.

The first craft to be surrendered were the U-boats, which began to arrive at Harwich on 20 November, with 176 eventually being handed over. Hipper refused to lead his fleet to the surrender, delegating the task to Rear-Admiral Ludwig von Reuter.[1] The German fleet was met by the light cruiser Cardiff on the morning of 21 November, and led to the rendezvous with over 370 ships of the Grand Fleet and other allied navies. There were 70 German ships in total; the battleship König and the light cruiser Dresden had engine trouble and had to be left behind. The destroyer V30 struck a mine while crossing, and sank.[1]

The German ships were escorted into the Firth of Forth, where they anchored. Beatty signalled them:

The German flag will be hauled down at sunset today and will not be hoisted again without permission.[1][2]

The fleet was then moved between 25 and 27 November to Scapa Flow; the destroyers to Gutter Sound and the battleships and cruisers to the north and west of the island of Cava.[3] Eventually a total of 74 ships were interned there, the König and Dresden having arrived on 6 December accompanied by the destroyer V129, which replaced the sunken V30. The last ship to arrive was the battleship Baden on 9 January.[4] Initially the interned ships were guarded by the Battle Cruiser Force (later reduced to the Battle Cruiser Squadron), commanded in succession by Vice-Admiral Pakenham, Rear-Admiral Oliver and Rear-Admiral Keyes. On 1 May Vice-Admiral Leveson and the Second Battle Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet took over guard duties, and were succeeded on 18 May by Vice-Admiral Sir Sydney Fremantle and the First Battle Squadron.[5]

[edit] In captivity

Symbols of ships are arrayed in a portion of water mostly surrounded by land.
Map of the fleet's internment at Scapa Flow from 25 March. Only the locations of battleships, cruisers, and five torpedo boats are shown.

The naval historian Arthur Marder described the state of affairs in the German ships during the internment as "one of complete demoralization". He identified four reasons which exacerbated the situation: lack of discipline, standard of food, lack of recreation, and slow postal service. The cumulative result of these problems created "indescribable filth in some of the ships".[6] On 29 November the Second-in-Command of the Grand Fleet, Admiral Sir Charles Madden, wrote to his brother-in-law and former superior Lord Jellicoe that, "All proposed orders are considered and counter-signed by the men's committee before they are executed and then they are carried out as convenient". When visiting an interned ship the German officers were reported to have been "dumb with shame".[7] Food was sent from Germany twice a month but was monotonous and not of good quality. Catching fish and seagulls provided a dietary supplement and some recreation. A large amount of brandy was also sent over. Recreation for the men was limited to their ships, as the British refused to allow any of the interned sailors to go ashore or even visit any other German ships. British officers and men were only allowed to visit on official business.[8] Outgoing post to Germany was censored from the beginning, and later incoming post also. German seamen were granted 300 cigarettes a month or 75 cigars. There were German doctors in the interned fleet but no dentists, and the British refused to provide one.[9]

Command of the interned ships was exercised through Rear-Admiral von Reuter, flying his flag in the battleship Friedrich der Grosse. He had a British drifter at his disposal for visiting ships and issuing written orders on urgent business, and his staff was occasionally allowed to visit other ships to arrange repatriation of officers and men.[10] Von Reuter, whose health was poor, requested that his flag be transferred to the light cruiser Emden on 25 March after he was repeatedly prevented from sleeping by the stomping on his cabin roof by a group of sailors called the "Red Guard".[5][9] Over seven months the number of men in his command was continually reduced from the 20,000 men who had sailed the ships over in November. 4,000 returned to Germany on 3 December, 6,000 on 6 December and 5,000 on 12 December, leaving 4,815, of whom approximately 100 were repatriated a month.[11]

German sailors fishing over the side of a destroyer

Negotiations over the fate of the ships were underway at the Paris Peace Conference. The French and Italians each wanted a quarter of the ships. The British wanted them destroyed since they knew that any re-distribution would be detrimental to the proportional advantage in numbers they had compared to other navies.[9] Under Article XXXI of the Armistice the Germans were not permitted to destroy their ships. Both Admirals Beatty and Madden had approved plans to seize the German ships in case scuttling was attempted; Admirals Keyes and Leveson had recommended that the ships be seized anyway and the crews interned ashore at Nigg Island, but their suggestions were not taken up.[12] Their concern was not without justification, for as early as January, von Reuter had mentioned the possibility of scuttling the fleet to his chief of staff.[13] Having learned of the possible terms of the Treaty of Versailles in May he began to prepare detailed plans to scuttle his ships.[14] Admiral Erich Raeder later wrote that von Reuter was informed that the fleet was to be scuttled at all costs.[15] A further reduction of crews with the departure of two transports to Germany on 18 June meant that von Reuter was left with reliable men to carry out preparations.[16] On that day he sent out orders, paragraph 11 of which stated: "It is my intention to sink the ships only if the enemy should attempt to obtain possession of them without the assent of our government. Should our government agree in the peace to terms to the surrender of the ships, then the ships will be handed over, to the lasting disgrace of those who have placed us in this position."[16] His orders were sent to the interned ships on 18 June.[16]

In the meantime the signing of the Treaty of Versailles was scheduled for noon on 21 June.[17] The First Battle Squadron prepared to board the German ships in force to check for signs that the fleet was preparing to scuttle. On 13 June Admiral Madden requested in person at the Admiralty a daily political appreciation from 17 June onwards so as to be prepared to take action, but as Madden related to Beatty shortly afterwards, "they had no reliable indication of the German attitude towards the peace terms". Admiral Fremantle submitted to Madden on 16 June a scheme for seizing the German ships at midnight of 21/22 June, after the treaty was meant to be signed. Madden approved the plan on the 19th, but only after he had been informed that the deadline for signing the treaty had been extended to 19:00 on 23 June and he neglected to officially inform Fremantle.[18] News of the extension had been seen by Fremantle in a newspaper on the same day and he assumed it to be true.[18] He had been under orders from Madden for some time to exercise his battleships against torpedo attacks, which required good weather in order to recover the torpedoes. The weather on the night of 20 June was favourable so Fremantle ordered the First Battle Squadron to sea at 09:00 the next morning, 21 June.[18] The operation to seize the German ships was postponed until the night of his squadron's return to Scapa Flow on 23 June, after the deadline to sign the treaty had expired.[19] Fremantle later claimed that before he left Scapa he had unofficially informed von Reuter that the armistice was still in effect.[20]

[edit] The fleet is scuttled

Around 10:00 AM on 21 June von Reuter sent a flag signal ordering the fleet to stand by for the signal to scuttle. At about 11:20 the flag signal was sent: "To all Commanding Officers and the Leader of the Torpedo Boats. Paragraph Eleven of to-day's date. Acknowledge. Chief of the Interned Squadron."[21] The signal was repeated by semaphore and searchlights.[22] Scuttling began immediately: seacocks and flood valves were opened and internal water pipes smashed.[23] Portholes had already been loosened, watertight doors and condenser covers left open, and in some ships holes had been bored through bulkheads, all to facilitate the spread of water once scuttling had begun.[23]

There was no noticeable effect until noon, when Friedrich der Grosse began to list heavily to starboard and all the ships hoisted the Imperial German Ensign at their mainmasts. The crews then began to abandon ship.[24] The British naval forces left at Scapa Flow comprised three destroyers, one of which was under repair, seven trawlers and a number of drifters.[21][22] Fremantle started receiving news of the scuttling at 12:20 and cancelled his squadron's exercise at 12:35, steaming at full speed back to Scapa Flow. He and a division of ships arrived at 14:30 in time to see only the large ships left afloat. He had radioed ahead to order all available craft to prevent the German ships sinking or beach them.[25] The last German ship to sink was the battlecruiser Hindenburg at 17:00,[22] by which time fifteen capital ships were sunk, and only Baden had survived. Four light cruisers and thirty-two destroyers were sunk. Nine Germans were shot and killed and about sixteen wounded aboard their ships as the British tried to order them to stop the scuttling.[26]

1,774 Germans were picked up during the afternoon and transported by battleships of the First Battle Squadron to Invergordon.[27] Fremantle had sent out a general order declaring that the Germans were to be treated as prisoners-of-war for having broken the armistice and they were destined for the prisoner-of-war camps at Nigg. Von Reuter and a number of his officers were brought onto the quarterdeck of HMS Revenge, where Fremantle gave a speech, translated by an interpreter while von Reuter and his men looked on "with expressionless faces":

Admiral von Reuter: I cannot permit you and your officers to leave naval custody without expressing to you my sense of the manner in which you have violated common honour and the honourable traditions of seamen of all nations. With an armistice in full operation you recommenced hostilities without notice by hoisting the German flag in the interned ships and proceeding to sink and destroy them. You have informed my interpreter that you considered the Armistice had terminated. You had no justification whatever for that assumption. You would have been informed by me of the termination of the Armistice and whether the representatives of your nation had or had not signed the Treaty of Peace. Indeed, letters in readiness to send to you to that effect as soon as I had received official intimation from my Government were written and signed. Further, can you possibly suppose that my Squadron would have been out of harbour at the moment of the termination of the Armistice? By your conduct you have added one more to the breaches of faith and honour of which Germany has been guilty in this war. Begun with a breach of military honour in the invasion of Belgium, it bids fair to terminate with a breach of naval honour. You have proved to the few who doubted it that the word of the New Germany is no more to be trusted than that of the old. What opinion your country will form of your action I do not know. I can only express what I believe to be the opinion of the British Navy, and indeed of all seamen except those of your Nation. I now transfer you to the custody of the British military authorities as prisoners of war guilty of a flagrant violation of Armistice.[28]

[edit] Reactions

Only the upper works of SMS Hindenburg remained above the water.

The French were disappointed that the German fleet was gone, having hoped to take over at least some of the ships.[1] The British Admiral Wemyss privately remarked:

I look upon the sinking of the German fleet as a real blessing. It disposes once and for all the thorny question of the redistribution of these ships.[1]

German Admiral Reinhard Scheer declared:

I rejoice. The stain of surrender has been wiped from the escutcheon of the German Fleet. The sinking of these ships has proved that the spirit of the fleet is not dead. This last act is true to the best traditions of the German navy.[1]

[edit] Aftermath

Of the 74 German ships in Scapa Flow, 15 of the 16 capital ships, 5 of the 8 cruisers, and 32 of the 50 destroyers were sunk.[2] The remainder either remained afloat, or were towed to shallower waters and beached. The beached ships were later dispersed to the allied navies, but most of the sunken ships were initially left at the bottom of Scapa Flow, the cost of salvaging them being deemed to be not worth the potential returns, owing to the glut of scrap metal left after the end of the war, with plenty of obsolete warships having been broken up.[29] After complaints from locals that the wrecks were a hazard to navigation, a salvage company was formed in 1923, which raised four of the sunken destroyers.

Salvage work in progress on the German battleship Baden at Scapa Flow. The cruiser Frankfurt is also in view.

At about this time, the entrepreneur Ernest Cox became involved. He bought 26 destroyers from the Admiralty for £250, as well as the Seydlitz and Hindenburg.[29] He began operations to re-float the destroyers using an old German dry dock he had purchased and subsequently modified. He was able to lift 24 of his 26 destroyers over the next year and a half, after which he began work on the larger vessels. He developed a new salvage technique whereby divers would patch the holes in the submerged hulls, and then pump air into them so they would rise to the surface, where they could then be towed to the breakers.[29] Using this technique, he re-floated several of the ships. His methods were costly, however, and the final cost of raising the Hindenburg ran to some £30,000. Industrial action and a coal strike in 1926 nearly brought operations to a halt, but Cox instead dug out the coal in the submerged Seydlitz, using it to power his machines until the end of the strike.[29] Salvaging the Seydlitz also proved difficult, as the ship sank again during the first attempt to raise her, wrecking most of the salvage equipment. Undaunted, Cox tried again, ordering that when she was next raised, news cameras would be there to capture him witnessing the moment. The plan nearly backfired when the Seydlitz was accidentally refloated while Cox was holidaying in Switzerland. Cox told the workers to sink her again, then returned to Britain to be present as the Seydlitz was duly re-floated a second time.[29] Cox's company eventually raised 26 destroyers, two battlecruisers and five battleships.[29]

Cox sold his remaining interests to the Alloa Shipbuilding Company, and retired as the "man who bought a navy".[29] The company later became Metal Industries, and went on to raise a further five cruisers, battlecruisers and battleships, before the outbreak of the Second World War brought operations to a halt.[30] The remaining wrecks lie in deeper waters, in depths up to 47 metres (154 ft), and there has been no economic incentive to attempt to raise them since. Minor salvage is still carried out to recover small pieces of steel. This low-background steel is used in the manufacture of radiation-sensitive devices, such as Geiger counters, as it is not contaminated with radioisotopes, it having been produced prior to any chance of nuclear contamination.[30]

The seven wrecks that remain are scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. Divers are allowed to visit them but need a permit to do so.[31] The last military witness to the scuttling of the fleet was Claude Choules. Choules, who died on 5 May 2011 aged 110, was both Great Britain's and the world's last known First World War combat veteran.[32]

While the rebuild of the German Army in the 1930s would be based upon the invincibility on the battlefield and the "stab in the back", the attitude of the High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow would became a symbol of defiance for the new recruits and officers of the Kriegsmarine.[33]

A tug alongside the scuttled destroyer G102
Name Type Sunk/Beached Fate[34]
Seydlitz Battlecruiser Sunk 13:50* Salvaged November 1929
Moltke Battlecruiser Sunk 13:10* Salvaged June 1927
Von der Tann Battlecruiser Sunk 14:15* Salvaged December 1930
Derfflinger Battlecruiser Sunk 14:45* Salvaged August 1939
Hindenburg Battlecruiser Sunk 17:00* Salvaged July 1930
Kaiser Battleship Sunk 13:15* Salvaged March 1929
Prinzregent Luitpold Battleship Sunk 13:15* Salvaged March 1929
Kaiserin Battleship Sunk 14:00* Salvaged May 1936
Friedrich der Grosse Battleship Sunk 12:16* Salvaged 1937
König Albert Battleship Sunk 12:54* Salvaged July 1935
König Battleship Sunk 14:00* Partially salvaged[citation needed]
Großer Kurfürst Battleship Sunk 13:30* Salvaged April 1938
Kronprinz Wilhelm Battleship Sunk 13:15* Partially salvaged[citation needed]
Markgraf Battleship Sunk 16:45* Partially salvaged[citation needed]
Baden Battleship Beached Transferred to British control, sunk as a target in 1921
Bayern Battleship Sunk 14:30* Salvaged September 1933
Brummer Cruiser Sunk 13:05* Partially salvaged[citation needed]
Bremse Cruiser Sunk 14:30* Salvaged November 1929
Dresden Cruiser Sunk 13:50* Partially salvaged[citation needed]
Köln Cruiser Sunk 13:50* Partially salvaged[citation needed]
Karlsruhe Cruiser Sunk 15:50* Partially salvaged[citation needed]
Nürnberg Cruiser Beached Transferred to British control, sunk as a target in 1922
Emden Cruiser Beached Transferred to French control, broken up in 1926
Frankfurt Cruiser Beached Transferred to American control, sunk as a target in 1921
S032S32 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged June 1925
S036S36 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged April 1925
G038G38 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged September 1924
G039G39 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged July 1925
G040G40 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged July 1925
V043V43 Destroyer Beached Transferred to American control, sunk as a target in 1921
V044V44 Destroyer Beached Transferred to British control, broken up in 1922
V045V45 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged 1922
V046V46 Destroyer Beached Transferred to French control, broken up in 1924
S049S49 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged December 1924
S050S50 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged October 1924
S051S51 Destroyer Beached Transferred to British control, broken up in 1922
S052S52 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged October 1924
S053S53 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged August 1924
S054S54 Destroyer Sunk* Partially salvaged
S055S55 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged August 1924
S056S56 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged June 1925
S060S60 Destroyer Beached Transferred to Japanese control, broken up in 1922
S065S65 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged May 1922
V070V70 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged August 1924
V073V73 Destroyer Beached Transferred to British control, broken up in 1922
V078V78 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged September 1925
V080V80 Destroyer Beached Transferred to Japanese control, broken up in 1922
V081V81 Destroyer Beached Sunk on the way to the breakers
V082V82 Destroyer Beached Transferred to British control, broken up in 1922
V083V83 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged 1923
V086V86 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged July 1925
V089V89 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged December 1922
V091V91 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged September 1924
G092G92 Destroyer Beached Transferred to British control, broken up in 1922
G101 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged April 1926
G102 Destroyer Beached Transferred to American control, sunk as a target in 1921
G103 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged September 1925
G104 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged April 1926
B109 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged March 1926
B110 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged December 1925
B111 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged March 1926
B112 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged February 1926
V125 Destroyer Beached Transferred to British control, broken up in 1922
V126 Destroyer Beached Transferred to French control, broken up in 1925
V127 Destroyer Beached Transferred to Japanese control, broken up in 1922
V128 Destroyer Beached Transferred to British control, broken up in 1922
V129 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged August 1925
S131 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged August 1924
S132 Destroyer Beached Transferred to American control, sunk in 1921
S136 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged April 1925
S137 Destroyer Beached Transferred to British control, broken up in 1922
S138 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged May 1925
H145 Destroyer Sunk* Salvaged March 1925
V100 Destroyer Beached Transferred to French control, broken up in 1921

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Massie. Castles of Steel. pp. 778–788. 
  2. ^ a b Van der Vat. Standard of Power. p. 135. 
  3. ^ Marder. From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow. V. p. 270. 
  4. ^ Massie. Castles of Steel. p. 783. 
  5. ^ a b Marder. From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow. V. p. 273. 
  6. ^ Marder. From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow. V. pp. 271–272. 
  7. ^ Quoted in Marder. From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow. V. p. 271. 
  8. ^ Marder. From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow. V. p. 271. 
  9. ^ a b c Massie. Castles of Steel. p. 785. 
  10. ^ Marder. From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow. V. p. 272. 
  11. ^ Massie. Castles of Steel. p. 784. 
  12. ^ Marder. From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow. V. p. 274. 
  13. ^ von Reuter. Scapa Flow. p. 79. 
  14. ^ Ruge. Scapa Flow 1919. pp. 130–133. 
  15. ^ Raeder. My Life. p. 105. 
  16. ^ a b c van der Vat. The Grand Scuttle. p. 167. 
  17. ^ van der Vat. The Grand Scuttle. p. 168. 
  18. ^ a b c van der Vat. The Grand Scuttle. p. 163. 
  19. ^ van der Vat. The Grand Scuttle. p. 169. 
  20. ^ Fremantle. My Naval Career. p. 276. 
  21. ^ a b Marder. From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow. V. p. 280. 
  22. ^ a b c Massie. Castles of Steel. p. 787. 
  23. ^ a b van der Vat. The Grand Scuttle. pp. 164–5. 
  24. ^ van der Vat. The Grand Scuttle. p. 171. 
  25. ^ Marder. From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow. V. p. 281. 
  26. ^ Marder. From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow. V. p. 282. 
  27. ^ Massie. Castles of Steel. p. 788. 
  28. ^ Marder. From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow. V. pp. 281–282. 
  29. ^ a b c d e f g Fine. Lost on the Ocean Floor. pp. 130–138. 
  30. ^ a b Butler. Distant Victory. p. 229. http://books.google.com/books?id=cqgrz37DgMcC&lpg=PP1&ots=1z1Ed0S5SP&dq=Butler.%20Distant%20Victory&pg=PA229#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
  31. ^ Maritime and Coastguard Agency. "PROTECTED WRECKS IN THE UK: Wrecks designated as Maritime Scheduled Ancient Monuments". http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/mcga07-home/emergencyresponse/mcga-receiverofwreck/mcga-protectedwrecks/mcga-protectedwrecks-ancient.htm. 
  32. ^ Booth, Gary. "500 km by bike to demolish Albany". Navy News. Archived from the original on 2008-02-03. http://www.webcitation.org/5VKt9rJAJ. Retrieved 2007-07-06. 
  33. ^ Humble, Richard (1972). Hitler's high seas fleet. Pan Books, p. 23. ISBN 9780345097217
  34. ^ World War I Naval Combat. "List of Warships Scuttled at Scapa Flow". http://www.worldwar1.co.uk/scapa-flow.html. 

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