In the opening months of World War II, Admiral Graf Spee prowled the Atlantic as a dangerous raider built to attack the lifelines of the British Empire. Its campaign forced Britain and France into a ...

The 7-ton anchor which once belonged to the Reichsmarine's Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee sank off the coast of Montevideo in December 1939, marking the end to the Battle of the River Plate against ...

This was before the Graf Spee encountered three Royal Navy cruisers on 13 December, 1939. In the ensuing battle of the river Plate, the Graf Spee was badly damaged and travelled to the neutral port of ...

Gustav Friedrich Adolph Quick, 89, the last surviving crew member of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee that was scuttled in the River Plate at the beginning of World War II, has passed away and ...

The future of a bronze eagle which once adorned the Nazi-era battleship Admiral Graf Spee remains uncertain after plans to melt it down were scrapped. Treasure hunters raised the eagle in 2006 off the ...

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. The pilot ...

Admiral Graf Spee was built as a German pocket battleship designed to outgun cruisers and outrun heavier warships. At the ...

A skeleton crew smashed up the Graf Spee's ultra-modern gunsight technology with hammers to stop the British finding it. Four miles out, the captain and his men took to small boats, and the night sky ...

A team of divers has recovered a key piece of the German World War II battleship Graf Spee from the mouth of the River Plate in Uruguay. Salvage experts managed to re-float the ship's range-finding ...

The Graf Spee was once a symbol of German naval might. In the early days of World War II it roamed the South Atlantic, sinking as many as nine allied merchant ships. But the vessel was scuttled by her ...