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 ...
Since the discovery of the Titanic, the Endurance and the fate of Admiral Graf von Spee’s great cruiser fleet have been the two great enduring maritime mysteries of our times. In our search for ...
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 ...
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Tables were turned on Vice-Admiral Graf von Spee at Battle of Falklands in December 1914Eventually she sank, taking von Spee and the entire crew with her ... In 1934 Germany named a new heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee in honour of ‘the hero of Coronel’. In December 1939, she ...
Der Heckadler des deutschen Panzerschiffs "Admiral Graf Spee" soll zu einer Friedenstaube umgearbeitet werden. "In Zeiten der Spaltung, der Gewalt, des Krieges in der Welt wollen wir ein Zeichen ...
Dabei wurde die "Admiral Graf Spee" schwer beschädigt. Für Reparaturarbeiten lief das Schiff zunächst in Montevideo ein, musste den sicheren Hafen aber aufgrund von diplomatischem Druck schon ...
“Toward the end of 1914,” said he in England last fortnight, “I received a message that Von Spee’s squadron was heading toward the Fijis and was only a day’s voyage away. “I knew that ...
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