Gustav Friedrich Adolph Quick, 89, the last surviving crew member of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee that was scuttled ... Plate by a British fleet under Admiral Henry Harwood comprised ...

The German navy pocket battleship Graf von Spee took refuge in the port of Montevideo in December 1939 chased by three Royal Navy vessels. However Uruguayan authorities of the time gave the vessel ...

The German Embassy made a formal announcement: “The commander of the glorious battleship Admiral Graf Spee sacrificed his own life last night for the Fatherland, eliminating himself ...

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 Spee ...

It seems highly improbable that Hall would have shared such confidential information to a former German naval intelligence officer. In 1934 Germany named a new heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee in ...

I might mention here that in 1937, Admiral Harwood ... and hammered the upper desk of the German pocket battleship until it was a shambles. GRAF SPEE then drew off and set a course for Montevideo ...

The small but immensely powerful Admiral Graf Spee was the pride of Hitler's naval fleet. Restricted to a limited size due to the impositions of the Treaty of Versailles, this 'pocket battleship ...