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 ...

The Sunderland -built steamer Newton Beech was one of the Graf Spee's conquests and she was sunk on October 5, 1939. She was a small ship, 4,615 tons, with a crew of 35 and was owned by Ridley ...

From refugees who arrived in London last week, with additional details flashed from Montevideo, came the story of what happened to 300 seamen and ship's officers taken from nine vessels captured ...

Five days later the Admiralty reported that the submarine Ursula had sneaked into the mouth of the Elbe, past six German destroyers, and sunk a 6,000-ton cruiser. Since such a ship would normally ...

Intent on pursuing the Graf Spee, he lay in wait with two light cruisers and a larger battleship, Exeter. The Graf Spee saw the Allied ships and cruised straight for them.

We flew out about 10 or 15 miles, dipped, and discovered that the ship was the Uruguayan cruiser Uruguay which had the Spee under observation. We flew back to the entrance to the harbor and picked ...

On November 1 1914 a Royal Navy squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock intercepted the German Pacific Squadron commanded by Vice-Admiral Graf von Spee off the coast of central ...

Graf von Spee's fleet overpowered the Royal Navy, causing the deaths of 1600 British sailors, in the Battle of Coronel off the coast of Chile in November 1914.