Thirty-seven German sailors were killed in the confrontation and Captain Langsdorff was wounded, along with 57 other of the Graf Spee's men. The Graf Spee was hit more than 30 times by shells ...
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 ...
The first naval battle of World War II didn’t take place in Europe, but in the South Atlantic, near Argentina and Uruguay. On December 13, 1939, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee faced ...
Die "Admiral Graf Spee" war zu Beginn des Zweiten Weltkrieges im Indischen Ozean und im Südatlantik auf Kaperfahrt und versenkte mehrere britische Frachtschiffe. Im Dezember 1939 lieferte sich ...
Die "Admiral Graf Spee" war ebenfalls getroffen worden und zählte 36 Tote und rund 50 Verwundete. Der Kommandant entschloss sich, die uruguayische Hauptstadt Montevideo anzulaufen - sehr zur ...
Captain Hans Langsdorff faced an impossible choice—fight or surrender. After three months of wreaking havoc in the Atlantic, the Graf Spee, Germany’s most successful commerce raider, was now cornered ...
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 ...
Anschließend machte sich die Fraktion ein Bild vom geplanten Bauvorhaben „Graf-Spee-Str.“. Oberbürgermeister Dr. Wingenfeld stellte das Bauvorhaben vor. 66 Wohnungen für Studierende und ...