Four days previously the Graf Spee had been seriously damaged during the Battle of the River Plate by a British fleet under Admiral Henry Harwood comprised of HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS ...

This Friday, weather permitting the German battleship Admiral Graf Spee, scuttled off the coast of Uruguay at the beginning of World War II, will be revealing another of its secrets that has been ...

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 ...

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 ...

Die "Admiral Graf Spee" war zu Beginn des Zweiten Weltkrieges im Indischen Ozean und im Südatlantik auf Kaperfahrt und versenkte mehrere britische Frachtschiffe. Im Dezember 1939 lieferte sich ...

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.