Mmmm ! - Are we a verse short here ? - The reference to

"And there were those who came who will return no more.
Who are asleep in lonely Scapa flow. "

Refers to ??? Possibly :-

1/. The Sinking of HMS Royal Oak by U47 (Gunther Prien) - Click Here

2/. The sortie of the Grand Fleet to Jutland in 1916 ?

or

3/. The general attrition of the Royal Navy 1939/45 - for a folk view of this Click Here    and Keith A's excellent posting in this thread Click Here

HMS Renown was a "Repulse" Class Battlecruiser - Built 1916 ? 6 15" Guns in twin mounts turrets - Served with the Home Fleet and Force H (Gibralta) and and would have been in and out of Scapa. But I wonder if Lights would have been shown in wartime conditions. NB prior to 1938 the northen peace time anchorage was Invergorden, near Inverness

As the lower deck Ballad goes (- and insert description of the number of funnels to suit your own vessel)

" So roll on the Nelson, Rodney, Renown,
This three funneled b*****d is getting me down

The tune is the same as the FAA A-25 Song - Does anyone know the full words - I am afraid my memory is letting me down.

Gareth