With Graf von Spee’s fleet, by contrast, the challenge is finding it. The coordinates in the official reports of the battle are incorrect. When the fighting was over they had little idea of ...

Four days previously the Graf Spee had been seriously damaged during the Battle of the River Plate by a British fleet under Admiral Henry Harwood comprised of HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS ...

Soon after the outbreak of World War II, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee ... the English task force damaged Graf Spee so severely that she was forced to take refuge in the neutral ...

With British and French forces waiting beyond the horizon, Langsdorff had only two options: rally his exhausted crew for a final battle or scuttle the Graf Spee to keep her from enemy hands.