The first naval battle of World War II didn’t take place in Europe, but in the South Atlantic, near Argentina and Uruguay. On ...
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 ...
Captain Langsdorff eventually commited suicide in Buenos Aires The 7-ton anchor which once belonged to the Reichsmarine's Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee sank off the coast of Montevideo in ...
Rear Admiral, Paul-Willy Zieb ordered the ship’s disposal to avoid it being taken by the fast-approaching Russian army. Serbia's Minister of Infrastructure and Energy Goran Vesić wrote on X ...
It had been affixed to the front of the Admiral Graf Spee Nazi warship, which was scuttled by British ships in a Montevideo harbor in December 1939. After its recovery, the eagle was briefly shown ...
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 ...