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 ...

With Germany lacking major warships at the war’s outset, the Kriegsmarine relied on smaller “pocket battleships” like the Admiral Graf Spee. On December 13, 1939, Graf Spee confronted three ...

Germany's pocket battleships didn't weigh more than the Treaty of Versailles stipulated its battleships could weigh, but they ...

The project to salvage the 27-ton communications tower of sunken Nazi battleship “Admiral Graf Spee” in the Rio de la Plata was dealt a blow by bad weather on Monday. The attempt to raise the ...

Soon after the outbreak of World War I, the German forces, under Admiral Graf von Spee, left Tsingtao rather than waiting to be trapped in the harbour by Allied fleets. After a subsequent minor ...

Das vor 90 Jahren geschlossene deutsch-britische Flottenabkommen erlaubte den Nazis die Aufrüstung ihrer Marine • Foto: imago ...

By Neil Vigdor A retired four-star admiral was convicted on Monday of using his position in the Navy to try to steer millions of dollars in contracts to a company that had given him a lucrative ...

Navy Rear Adm. Kevin Smith has been fired as the program executive officer for unmanned and small vessels “due to a loss of confidence based on a complaint substantiated by an Office of the ...

Night News Reporter A retired four-star Navy admiral was found guilty of a bribery scheme Monday following a three-day jury deliberation in Washington, D.C. Adm. Robert P. Burke, a former vice ...

A retired four-star Navy admiral has been found guilty of bribery by a Washington, D.C., jury. Robert Burke, who oversaw U.S. naval operations in Europe, Russia and most of Africa from 2020 to ...

A jury on Monday convicted a retired four-star admiral who served as the U.S. Navy's second-highest-ranking officer on corruption charges for steering contracts to a company in exchange for a ...