On December 13, 1939, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee faced off against three powerful British warships in a high-stakes duel. Despite being outnumbered, the Kriegsmarine warship ...

The range finder described as "a state of the art" optical piece for its time gave the feared German pocket battleship and its powerful gunnery an all weather clear precision edge over the Royal Navy.

Gustav Friedrich Adolph Quick, 89, the last surviving crew member of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee that was scuttled in the River Plate at the beginning of World War II, has passed away ...

Soon after the outbreak of World War II, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, one of the fastest and most modern warships in the world, began to cut some dangerous gaps into the vital ...

Restricted to a limited size due to the impositions of the Treaty of Versailles, this 'pocket battleship' was still a formidable fighting force. It was faster than a battleship, and had firepower ...