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 ...

The first naval battle of World War II unfolded not in Europe, but off the coasts of Argentina and Uruguay in the South Atlantic Ocean. With Germany lacking major warships at the war’s outset, the ...

Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou had a change of mind Sunday regarding the bronze eagle from the Third Reich's battleship Admiral Graf Spee and announced it would not be turned into a dove of ...

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 ...

It once sat atop the Admiral Graf Spee, a German heavy cruiser that was scuttled in Montevideo Bay in 1939 after sustaining damage in the first naval battle of World War II. Now it’s in storage ...

Langsdorff, am 20. März 1894 in Bergen auf Rügen geboren, war es, der entschied, dass das unter seinem Befehl stehende Schiff, die "Admiral Graf Spee", mit seiner Besatzung, nicht in eine ...

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 ...