In the early hours of December 13, 1939, the South Atlantic bore witness to one of World War II’s most dramatic naval ...

Captain Hans Langsdorff stood in the harbor of Montevideo, knowing his time was running out. For months, the Graf Spee, Germany’s most successful commerce raider, had dominated the Atlantic, but ...

I watched from the vantage point of an airplane while explosions wrecked the doomed German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee.

Rarely included in discussions of their masterpieces, though it was Powell and Pressburger’s most commercially successful film, The Battle of the River Plate is based on the true story of the British ...

The last surviving World War II veteran of the New Zealand cruiser HMNZS Achilles, which took part in the sinking of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee in the South Atlantic in 1939, has died ...

The predicament of what to do with the eagle, currently housed in a naval warehouse, has been a source of contention in Uruguay since it was retrieved from the remains of the Admiral Graf Spee - a ...

The future of a bronze eagle which once adorned the Nazi battleship Admiral Graf Spee remains uncertain after plans to melt it down were scrapped. Treasure hunters raised the eagle in 2006 off the ...

The future of a bronze eagle which once adorned the Nazi-era battleship Admiral Graf Spee remains uncertain after plans to melt it down were scrapped. Treasure hunters raised the eagle in 2006 off ...