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 ...

British ships continued to shadow the Graf Spee, ... Uruguay, February 10, 2006. A symbol of German naval might in early World War II, the ship was sunk in December 1939.

Friedrich Adolph, 89, the last surviving sailor in Uruguay from the famous German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, which was sunk off the South American nation's coast early in World War II ...

Fact File : 'Admiral Graf Spee' Sunk. 13-17 December 1939 Location: River Plate and Montevideo, ... It had left Germany at the start of the war accompanied by the supply ship Altmark, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The scuttled Nazi battleship Admiral Graf Spee has withstood the silt and currents at the mouth of the River Plate for more than 60 ...

The Germans, led by Admiral Graf von Spee, sank two of Britain’s four ships during the November skirmish, killing 1,600 enemy sailors but suffering no casualties themselves.

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.

In early 1940, the German tanker Altmark attempted to evade the Royal Navy while carrying 300 Allied POWs, captured from ships sunk by the Admiral Graf Spee. When spotted by a British aircraft ...