German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee Coordinates: 34°58′S 56°17′W Admiral Graf Spee was a Deutschland -class " Panzerschiff " (armored ship), nicknamed a "pocket battleship" by the British, which served with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II. Admiral Graf von Spee Graf Spee Wreck of the Graf Spee, 1940. Graf Spee, German pocket battleship of 10,000 tons launched in 1936. The Graf Spee was more heavily gunned than any cruiser and had a top speed of 25 knots and an endurance of 12,500 miles (20,000 km).
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Battleship Admiral Graf Spee in World War II
The Kriegsmarine heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, commanded by Captain Hans Langsdorff, engaged a Royal Navy squadron, [1] [2] commanded by Commodore Henry Harwood, [3] comprising the light cruisers HMS Ajax, HMS Achilles (on loan to the New Zealand Division) and the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter. [4] Maximilian Johannes Maria Hubert Reichsgraf [1] von Spee (22 June 1861 - 8 December 1914) was a naval officer of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), who commanded the East Asia Squadron during World War I. Spee entered the navy in 1878 and served in a variety of roles and locations, including on a colonial gunboat in German West Afric. Admiral Graf Spee. Photograph Courtesy of the US Naval History & Heritage Command By Kennedy Hickman Updated on October 02, 2019 Admiral Graf Spee was a Deutschland -class panzerschiffe (armored ship) that entered service with the German Kriegsmarine in 1936. The Graf Sp ee sank the merchant ship Trevanion on October 22, 1939. Adhering to his own code of honor, Langsdorff allowed its crew to evacuate the vessel before it was destroyed. It was soon obvious that the Exeter was taking a pounding with the 11-inch guns accurately trained on her.
El Admiral Graf Spee en una foto tomada hacia 1938 Navy Admiral, The Admiral, Exeter, Montevideo
Maximilian, Graf von Spee (born June 22, 1861, Copenhagen, Denmark—died December 8, 1914, off Falkland Islands) admiral who commanded German forces in the battles of Coronel and the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands early in World War I.He entered the German navy in 1878, and in 1887-88 he commanded the port in German Cameroon. In 1908 he was made chief of staff of the German Ocean (North Sea. Admiral Harwood arrived in the cruiser HMS AJAX after the battle of the River Plate and the scuttling of the ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE. See object record According to international law, a warship could only remain in a neutral port for 24 hours, and British diplomats tried to have Graf Spee interned or forced to leave. Named for Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee, who went down with his flagship, the cruiser Scharnhorst, in the Battle of the Falkland Islands on December 8, 1914, the Graf Spee was launched at Wilhelmshaven on June 30, 1934, and was the third and last of the pocket battleships designed to circumvent the arms limitations of the 1919 Treaty of. Admiral Graf Spee was a Deutschland-class "Panzerschiff" , nicknamed a "pocket battleship" by the British, which served with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II. The vessel was named after World War I Admiral Maximilian von Spee, commander of the East Asia Squadron who fought the battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands, where he was killed in action.
Admiral Graf Spee after battle of the River Plate anchored off Montevideo Uruguay mid
'Admiral Graf Spee' at the Spithead Naval Review representing Germany at the coronation of King George VI. Germany sent its flagship the Admiral Graf Spee to represent the country. She was one of three new Deutschland-class battleships or Panzershiffe, as the Germans called them. Naval History Magazine. Volume 33, Number 4. Featured Article. View Issue. Comments. During the fourth month of World War II, on placid waters off South America, one New Zealand and two British cruisers intercepted the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee. After they exchanged fire for 83 minutes, the British squadron disengaged.
The rangefinder (lower L) of the Nazi pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee sits on the floor of the Plate River, seven kilometers from the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo, after being separated from. Admiral Graf Spee in 1936. Built at the Reichsmarinewerft shipyard in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, the construction of the Graf Spee commenced in 1932 and was completed by 1936. To enhance the ship's speed and range without sacrificing firepower, the designers turned to advanced technologies and engineering practices.
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Admiral Graf Spee. Panzerschiff / Schwerer Kreuzer 1936-1939 Deutschland Class. Ship Info History Operational History Technical Data Photos 1:1250 Model 3D Model Wreck salvage photos. Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee in December 1939. Named after Vice Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee, commnder of the South East Asian cruiser squadron who died at. The Admiral Graf Spee. The most famous of these raiders was the pocket battleship the Admiral Graf Spee, commanded by Captain Hans Langsdorff.. The Graf Spee sailed out into the Atlantic before the outbreak of war at the start of September 1939. This was a deliberate ploy to avoid having to break out past the Royal Navy.
