A symbol of the German Navy the Graf Spee prowled the South Atlantic hunting and sinking allied merchant vessels before she was crippled and surrounded by a British flotilla in the River Plate.
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 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 ...
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 ...
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Ranked: 5 Best Aircraft Carriers of World War IIArk Royal also played an indirect role in the destruction of the pocket battleship Graf Spee, joined in the first U-boat kill ...
SMS Scharnhorst was the flagship of German Vice-Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee's East Asia Squadron. It was sunk on 8 December 1914 with more than 800 men on board, including Vice-Adm von Spee ...
The object was part of the stern of the Graf Spee, which was scuttled by its crew off the coast of Uruguay's capital, Montevideo, in 1939. It now sits in a warehouse owned by the Uruguayan ...
World War II had begun in September. The German battleship Admiral Graf Spee had been deployed to the South Atlantic to disrupt Allied shipping, and it had just been battered by the British.
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 ...
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