HMS Exeter together with HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles made up a flotilla operating in the South Atlantic from the Falkland Islands that in December 1939 surprised and put an end to the German pocket ...

closing in with heavy cruiser HMS Exeter and light cruisers HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles on December 13. The crew of the Achilles was 60% New Zealanders, whose country would not form its own navy ...

This coming December will be the 80th anniversary of the River Plate battle, when HMS Ajax, HMS Exeter and HMS Achilles (New Zealand) finally caught the Graf von Spee, which then decided to ...