scuttling

Also known as scuttling a ship, ship scuttling

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Notable historical examples
Skuldelev ships (around 1070)
Cog near Kampen (early 15th century)
Hernán Cortés (1519)
HMS ''Sapphire'' (1696)
HMS ''Endeavour'' (1778)
Siege of Yorktown (1781)
HMS ''Bounty'' (1790)
Chesapeake Bay Flotilla (1814)
Jan van Speyk (1831)
Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol (1854)
The Clotilda
USS ''Merrimack''/CSS ''Virginia'' (1861)
Stone Fleet (1861–1862)
Peruvian fleet at El Callao (1881)
USS ''Merrimac'' (1898)
Port Arthur (1904–1905)
SMS ''Dresden'' (1915)
Zeebrugge Raid (1918)
German fleet at Scapa Flow (1919)
Washington Naval Treaty (1922)
''Admiral Graf Spee'' (1939)
''San Giorgio'' at Tobruk (1941)
Blockade of Massawa (1941)
''Bismarck'' (1941)
Coral Sea and Midway (1942)
French fleet at Toulon (1942)
Danish fleet (1943)
Allied landing in Normandy (1944)
Operation Deadlight (1945–1946)
Japanese submarines (1946)
Contemporary era
In popular culture
References
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thumb|right|upright=0.590|The Monument to the Sunken Ships, dedicated to ships destroyed during the siege of Sevastopol during the [[Crimean War, designed by Amandus Adamson]]

Scuttling is the act of deliberately sinking a ship by allowing water to flow into the hull, typically by its crew opening holes in its hull.