The telemeter was recovered first, in 2004, a huge piece weighing 27 tons, which at the time was state of the art technology for firing accurately heavy guns The Graf Spee was scuttled in December ...
On December 13th, 1939, the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee arrived at the estuary of the River Plate with the aim of ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Graf Spee's sailors were taken across the river to Buenos Aires, where crowds greeted them with fresh fruit. That night, wrapping himself in the flag of imperial Germany rather than the swastika, ...
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 ...
An operation to raise the German World War II warship Graf Spee from the mouth of the River Plate in Uruguay has begun in earnest despite bad weather. Salvage experts manoeuvred a floating crane into ...
A German warship called Graf Spee, which sank off Uruguay's coast in 1939 during the early days of World War II, is at the center of a growing debate. Many want to raise the ship and make it a tourist ...
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