managed this Wednesday evening to recover the range finder of the German battleship Admiral Graf Spee sunk in the River Plate since December 1939. The salvage team headed by experienced Uruguayan ...

Since the discovery of the Titanic, the Endurance and the fate of Admiral Graf von Spee’s great cruiser fleet have been the two great enduring maritime mysteries of our times. In our search for ...

The Germans were mystified by why Admiral Spee chose to raid the Falkland Islands because he had taken on sufficient coal in Chile and therefore was taking an unnecessary risk. Perhaps Spee was ...

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 ...

and a burst of speed at the end to win. High strung like his father, War Admiral would bolt onto the racetrack. He was like a racecar engine, quickly accelerating to high speeds and then ...

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