The Graf Spee was hit more than 30 times by shells ... the battleship entered the River Plate and docked at Montevideo's port and Langsdorff presented a report to Uruguayan authorities claiming ...
The "Graf Spee," one of the three German craft to be dubbed "pocket battleships" because they were light, fast and well-armed, has been lying at the bottom of the estuary since it was scuttled by ...
the English task force damaged Graf Spee so severely that she was forced to take refuge in the neutral harbor of Montevideo. But the government of Uruguay would not permit the Graf Spee to remain ...
The last surviving member of the Graf Spee's crew, Gustav Friedrich Adolph Quick, died in Montevideo in June 2007. He joined the ship at age 19 and was 89 when he died. Salvagers began to recover ...
The Exeter was sent for repairs in the Falklands and the Graf Spee sought refuge at Montevideo in neutral Uruguay. The British tried to engineer that she should stay there until Allied ...
Die "Admiral Graf Spee" war ebenfalls getroffen worden und zählte 36 Tote und rund 50 Verwundete. Der Kommandant entschloss sich, die uruguayische Hauptstadt Montevideo anzulaufen - sehr zur ...
Vor 80 Jahren sank das deutsche Panzerschiff "Admiral Graf Spee" auf den Grund des Río de la Plata - jetzt sorgt der Heckadler aus Bronze in Montevideo und Berlin für Kopfschmerzen. Nach einem ...
The object was part of the stern of the Graf Spee, which was scuttled by its crew off the coast of Uruguay's capital, Montevideo, in 1939. It now sits in a warehouse owned by the Uruguayan ...
Die Lage war aussichtslos für die „Admiral Graf Spee“. Am 17. Dezember 1939 versenkte Kapitän Langsdorff sein Schiff vor Montevideo selbst. Er wollte nicht die tausend Mann an Bord „mit ...