The Graf Spee was hit more than 30 times by shells fired from the British vessels, rendering it practically unable to function. Early on the night of Dec. 13th, ...

In the early hours of December 13, 1939, the South Atlantic bore witness to one of World War II’s most dramatic naval ...

The search for the Graf Spee's eagle was complex due to both the depth and the adverse conditions where lays, despite which the Etchegaray brothers achieved their feat. They had signed a contract ...

The Graf Spee immediately went into action sinking Allied supply ships up and down the West African coast. Between September and December the Graf Spee sank nine cargo vessels, totaling 50,089 ...

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 ...

MONTEVIDEO -- I watched from the vantage point of an airplane while explosions wrecked the doomed German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and she sank in the estuary of the river Plate.

It once sat atop the Admiral Graf Spee, a German heavy cruiser that was scuttled in Montevideo Bay in 1939 after sustaining damage in the first naval battle of World War II.

The Graf Spee fought them off with devastatingly accurate gunfire, then fled to the harbor of Montevideo, Uruguay, at the mouth of the River Plate. It was a refuge from which there would be no escape.

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.

Strong winds in the river Plate, the estuary that divides Argentina from Uruguay, delayed attempts yesterday to recover the wreck of the Graf Spee, the 10,000-ton German warship scuttled after one ...