The German navy pocket battleship Graf von Spee took refuge in the port of Montevideo in December 1939 chased by three Royal Navy vessels. However Uruguayan authorities of the time gave the vessel ...
The Graf Spee was sunk by her captain off the port of Montevideo in December of 1939 to avoid seizure by British cruisers after the Battle of the River Plate in World War II. Categories: Politics ...
The Battle of River Plate was fought on 13 December 1939 between the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and the Allied Naval task force. The location of the battle was off the South ...
In 1934 Germany named a new heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee in honour of ‘the hero of Coronel’. In December 1939, she was scuttled by her crew after the Battle of the River Plate off the coast ...
The question of what to do with the eagle, which sits in a naval warehouse, has vexed Uruguay since private explorers recovered it from the wreckage of the Admiral Graf Spee in 2006. The country ...
The Battle of River Plate was fought on 13 December 1939 between the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and the Allied Naval task force. The location of the battle was off the South ...