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    Admiral Graf Spee was a Deutschland-class "Panzerschiff" (armored ship), nicknamed a "pocket battleship" by the British, which served with the Kriegsmarine...
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  • Admiral Graf Spee may refer to: Graf Maximilian von Spee (1861–1914), German admiral German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, a 1934 German Navy cruiser (or...
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    other men. Spee was hailed as a hero in Germany, and several ships were named in his honor, including the heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, which was built...
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  • Royal Navy force of three cruisers and the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee. In the early months of the Second World War, Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine...
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  • Graf Spee may refer to: Graf Maximilian von Spee, German admiral in World War I or to several German ships that were named after the admiral: SMS Graf...
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    [citation needed][clarification needed] The Kriegsmarine heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, commanded by Captain Hans Langsdorff, engaged a Royal Navy squadron...
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    Treaty of Versailles. The ships of the class, Deutschland, Admiral Scheer, and Admiral Graf Spee, were all stated to displace 10,000 long tons (10,160 t)...
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    officer, most famous for his command of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee before and during the Battle of the River Plate off the coast of Uruguay...
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    squadron and the German "pocket battleship" Admiral Graf Spee. All four vessels suffered damage and the Graf Spee took refuge in Montevideo harbour. Negotiations...
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    her station off the Plate on 21 September. When the German raider, Admiral Graf Spee, became a threat, Force G was formed from Ajax (flagship, Commodore...
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  • German admiral in the Imperial German Navy Nzante Spee (1953–2005), Cameroonian painter It may also refer to: German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, scuttled...
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  • battleship Admiral Graf Spee in the Mozambique Channel, off the coast of Portuguese East Africa, becoming the sixth victim of Graf Spee's commerce raiding...
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  • battleship Admiral Graf Spee in the Mozambique Channel, off the coast of Portuguese East Africa, becoming the sixth victim of Graf Spee's commerce raiding...
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    the harbor. On 26 June 1937, she was relieved by her sister ship Admiral Graf Spee, allowing her to return to Wilhelmshaven on 1 July. She returned to...
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    the war, the most famous of these being the heavy cruisers Admiral Graf Spee and Admiral Scheer and the battleship Bismarck. However, the adoption of...
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    the available U-boats and the "pocket battleships" Deutschland and Admiral Graf Spee which had sortied into the Atlantic in August. These ships immediately...
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    the Battle of the River Plate the damaged German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee sought refuge in the port of Montevideo. On 17 December 1939, with...
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    Battleship Admiral Graf Spee, under the command of Captain Hans Langsdorff, and which was embarked upon a commerce raiding sortie. Graf Spee ordered the...
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    the German Kriegsmarine had already deployed the two heavy cruisers Admiral Graf Spee and Deutschland as commerce raiders in the North and South Atlantic...
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    cruiser Admiral Graf Spee was attacked by the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, Ajax and Achilles in the Battle of the River Plate. Admiral Graf Spee fled...
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    British warships and the German ship Admiral Graf Spee fought a battle not far off Uruguay's coast. The Admiral Graf Spee took refuge in Montevideo, claiming...
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  • battleship Admiral Graf Spee off the coast of South West Africa, becoming the seventh victim of the commerce raiding sortie of Graf Spee. Designed and...
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    one of three British cruisers that fought the German heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, later that year in the Battle of the River Plate. She was severely...
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  • needed] tried to honour Langsdorff and his ship the Admiral Graf Spee by naming a street Graf Spee Crescent. This was also changed after the public became...
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    and the associated rescue of sailors originally captured by the Admiral Graf Spee. She was torpedoed by the German submarine U-563 on 23 October 1941...
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    her support of the German commerce raider, the "pocket battleship" Admiral Graf Spee and her subsequent involvement in the "Altmark Incident". In 1940...
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    1943. Stereoscopic rangefinder salvaged from the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee on display in Montevideo, Uruguay Stadiametric rangefinding Coincidence...
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    Atlantic. There, she reinforced the search for the German heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee. In late May 1941, Dorsetshire took part in the final engagement with...
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    of the River Plate the German warship Admiral Graf Spee and heavily damages it. 14 December The Admiral Graf Spee, badly damaged, anchors in the port of...
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    year unsuccessfully hunting for the commerce-raiding German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee in the Indian Ocean before returning to the Mediterranean. She was...
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