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 ...
Soon after the outbreak of World War II, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, one of the fastest and most modern warships in the world, began to cut some dangerous gaps into the vital ...
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 ...
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 small but immensely powerful Admiral Graf Spee was the pride of Hitler's naval fleet. Restricted to a limited size due to the impositions of the Treaty of Versailles, this 'pocket battleship ...
Key Point: The loss of the Graf Spee was a blow to the prestige of Hitler’s small but expensive navy, for which even the loss of a single heavy warship... The loss of the Graf Spee was a blow to ...