History of Orkney should continue to be observed in Orkney and Shetland. Thus the udal succession and mode of land tenure (that is, absolute freehold as distinguished from feudal tenure) lingered to some extent, and the remaining udallers held their lands and passed them on without written title. The islands cluster round the huge deep-water anchorage of Scapa Flow like a protecting hand, and in both World War I and World War II, the Royal Navy had a major base there, enabling them to challenge any attempt by German warships to emerge into the ocean through the Norwegian Sea. After the Armistice in
Romanian Black Sea Fleet during World War I machine guns. The minelayer "Alexandru cel Bun" was armed with two 37 mm guns and two machine guns, in addition to her load of mines. The main Romanian port of Constanța was leased to a Russian naval squadron, headed by the battleship "Rostislav". This, combined with the fall of the port to the Central Powers during the Second Battle of Cobadin, rendered the small Northern port of Sulina as the base for the Romanian Black Sea Fleet. On 13 November 1916, the German minelaying submarine "UC-15" set off to lay mines off Sulina. However, she only managed to lay two