Four days previously the Graf Spee had been seriously damaged during the Battle of the River Plate by a British fleet under Admiral Henry Harwood comprised of HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS ...

This Friday, weather permitting the German battleship Admiral Graf Spee, scuttled off the coast of Uruguay at the beginning of World War II, will be revealing another of its secrets that has been ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1934 Germany named a new heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee in honour of ‘the hero of Coronel’. In December 1939, she was scuttled by her crew after the Battle of the River Plate off the coast ...

Why did Adolf Hitler change the Admiral Graf Spee from a gallant fighting ship into a miserable scuttleship? Naval men pondered many theories last week, as the Spee’s semi-submerged hulk still ...

On the same day last week that three British cruisers brilliantly defeated the Admiral Graf Spee (see above), two of the Navy’s warships collided somewhere at sea and the destroyer Duchess went ...