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 Graf Spee was sunk by her captain off the port of Montevideo in December of 1939 to avoid seizure by British cruisers after the Battle of the River Plate in World War II. Categories: Politics ...

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 ...

In this Nazi propaganda broadcast, Lord Haw-Haw reports that British cruiser HMS Exeter has "run aground" off the Falklands after an encounter with German battleship Graf Spee in the coastal ...

Admiral Sir Victor Alfred Trumper 'VAT' Smith led the first mass torpedo strike against a major warship at sea, survived ...

The most famous of the pocket battleships was Admiral Graf Spee. Serving in the South Atlantic as a commerce raider, she sunk nine ships totaling 50,089 GRT between September and December 1939 ...

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 ...

Its sister ship, Kaiserin Auguste Victoria ... the early stages of the conflict hunting the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee.

THE Commodore then stressed the fact—which he was to emphasize again in Germany later that his voyage in the Graf Zeppelin had shown him that speedier ships will be required for regular ...

SAFELY stored in its home hangar at Friedrichshafen, Germany, the Graf Zeppelin ... while confident of a rosy future for great aerial ships, did not appear to share the unqualified enthusiasm ...