The more famous and powerful 45,000-ton warships Bismarck and Tirpitz were not yet completed, making the Graf Spee and its two sister pocket battleships, the Admiral Scheer and Deutschland the ...

Within six months, the Bismarck would join the Graf Spee on the Atlantic sea bed. Just before he put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger, the German officer penned a final note.

The loss of the Graf Spee was a blow to the prestige of Hitler’s small but expensive navy, for which even the loss of a single heavy warship was significant. Within six months, the Bismarck ...

The British faced a bleak outlook in the early days of World War II, but a naval victory thousands of miles away from Europe boosted spirits at home.

A German warship called the Graf Spee, which sank off Uruguay's coast in 1939 during the early days of World War II, is at the center of a growing debate. Many want to raise the ship and make it a ...

The Graf Spee was one of three pocket battleships deployed by the Germans early during World War II. Pocket battleships actually were swift, heavily armed cruisers.

Joining Nedden, 82, on the 80th anniversary of her father’s death will be descendants of the Graf Spee’s 1,000-person crew, who were saved when Langsdorff scuttled the ship on Dec. 17, 1939.

The scuttled Nazi battleship Admiral Graf Spee has withstood the silt and currents at the mouth of the River Plate for more than 60 years while waiting for someone to salvage it. Most of the Graf ...

I watched from the vantage point of an airplane while explosions wrecked the doomed German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee.