The cruiser HMS Exeter, best known for its valiant role ... After sustaining serious damage, Exeter was forced to withdraw. However, one of its shells was able to exact some retribution.

In the ensuing battle, HMS Exeter was severely damaged and forced to retire, while all other ships received moderate damage. Ajax and Achilles then shadowed the Graff Spee, which entered the ...

HMS Exeter sinking after heavy bombardment Credit ... “This latest example of commercially driven damage to what are maritime military graves should be a spur to international action, led ...

War grave HMS Exeter is being plundered for scrap metal and the bodies of sailors who drowned aboard her are being dumped in mass graves. Reports in Indonesian media say dredgers have been ...

inflicting great damage until they were intercepted and sunk. The Exeter, accompanied by the destroyer HMS Encounter and American destroyer USS Pope, steered east, but on the morning of 1 March ...

The HMS Exeter is one of the best known British warships of the Second World War. Inside Out follows the ship's veterans on an emotional journey to Indonesia. Series Producer Dimitri Houtart tells ...

The Sea Dart missiles, which have a range of 40 miles, used to protect HMS Exeter and HMS Southampton against enemy planes and missiles. Now 4.5inch guns give them their main protection.

What he did not know was the masts belonged to HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles. They were soon identified but, in an unusually aggressive move for the measured Langsdorff, he chose to ...

A special service has been remembering the crew of HMS Exeter which sank in the Far East during the Second World War. Around fifty men were killed as the ship went down. But many more died at the ...

Tom faces the fight of his life aboard HMS Exeter. Harry and Lois are also battling. Tom faces the fight of his life aboard HMS Exeter, while Harry and Lois have a more personal battle to fight.