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 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 ...

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 Graf Spee, commissioned in 1936, was more than 600 feet long and had 1,150 crew members.It displaced well over 10,000 tons, despite Treaty of Versailles stipulations limiting German warships ...

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 Graf Spee sank nine merchant ships in the Indian Ocean and South Atlantic before she was intercepted on […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 77°F. Thursday, April 3rd 2025 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The scuttled Nazi battleship Admiral Graf Spee has withstood the silt and currents at the mouth of the River Plate for more than 60 ...

The Graf Spee sunk several Allied merchant ships in the South Atlantic before two British cruisers and one from New Zealand intercepted and damaged her during the “Battle of the River Plate ...

Gingerly, and with the utmost delicacy, bits from the Graf Spee - the German pocket battleship whose captain was fooled by the Royal Navy and British diplomats into scuttling her in Uruguayan ...

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 ...