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Colorized picture of Admiral Graf Spee in Spithead UK, 1937. Any help identifying the ships in

SMS Scharnhorst was the flagship of German Vice-Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee's East Asia Squadron. It was sunk on 8 December 1914 with more than 800 men on board, including Vice-Adm von.


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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.


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As the first part of the ship, the main rangefinder was salvaged in March 2004. The photos on were made by Tabare Perez, Montevideo. The parts of the Graf Spee salvaged in 2004 were restored and four years later, the rangefinder is in a much better condition The photos on were made by Simon Ryan in late 2008.


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Admiral Graf Spee inflicted heavy damage on the British ships, but she too was damaged and was forced to put into port at Montevideo, Uruguay. Convinced by false reports of superior British naval forces gathering, Hans Langsdorff, commander of the ship, ordered the vessel to be scuttled.


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The Battle of the River Plate was fought in the South Atlantic on 13 December 1939 as the first naval battle of the Second World War.The Kriegsmarine heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, commanded by Captain Hans Langsdorff, engaged a Royal Navy squadron, commanded by Commodore Henry Harwood, comprising the light cruisers HMS Ajax, HMS Achilles (on loan to the New Zealand Division) and the heavy.


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One of the most famous German battleships of the Second World War, the Graf Spee was sunk on 17 December 1939 in the river Plate outside Montevideo in Uruguay. Facing what he thought to be insuperable odds, the captain, von Langsdorff, opted to scuttle his ship rather than face the might of the Royal Navy in open combat.


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Admiral Graf Spee was a Deutschland-class "Panzerschiff" , nicknamed a "pocket battleship" by the British, which served with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II. The vessel was named after World War I Admiral Maximilian von Spee, commander of the East Asia Squadron who fought the battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands, where he was killed in action.


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Thu 22 Jan 2004 22.05 EST A salvage operation will be launched next week to raise from the estuary of the river Plate the wreck of the German battleship Graf Spee, which spread terror across.


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Photo Credit. 1938. April 1939. Rear Guns of the Graf Spee. 1938. Warships at the Spithead Fleet Review of 1937, The German heavy cruiser ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE anchored off Spithead for the 1937 Fleet Review. In the background are the battleship HMS RESOLUTION and the battlecruiser HMS HOOD.


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The rangefinder (lower L) of the Nazi pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee sits on the floor of the Plate River, seven kilometers from the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo, after being separated.


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Graf Spee's Forward Triple 11″ Guns. 1939 A single 5.9″/55 (150mm) and a twin 4.1″/65 (105mm) gun mounts on the Admiral Graf Spee. Admiral Graf Spee's Number Two 10.5cm/65 twin anti-aircraft gun. Number Four 15cm/55 gun mount second gun in the forward port side group photographed on board her wreck on 2 February 1940.


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Graf Spee, German pocket battleship of 10,000 tons launched in 1936. The Graf Spee was more heavily gunned than any cruiser and had a top speed of 25 knots and an endurance of 12,500 miles (20,000 km).


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The wreck of a German armoured cruiser that was sunk by the British during the First World War has been found off the coast of the Falkland Islands.. Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee was killed.


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The wreck of Admiral Graf Spee. After the ship was scuttled it started to sink deeper and deeper into the mud until it finaly disappeared below the water surface. The hull broke in two pieces just in front of barbette B. A close-up of the out-burned fighting tower of Admiral Graf Spee. The photo on 2.


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The third and final Panzerschiff of the Deutschland class, the Admiral Graf Spee, was commissioned in January 1936, and after the appropriate trial period, served as flagship of the German fleet. Like her two other sister ships, the Graf Spee conducted several non-intervention patrols off the coast of Spain during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).


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At 6:14 am, the Admiral Graf Spee fired the first shots of the day, straddling the Ajax and the Exeter. From then on it was a thunderous cacophony of sound as these great guns belched. The Graf Sp ee sank the merchant ship Trevanion on October 22, 1939.