The cruiser HMS Exeter, best known for its valiant role in the Battle of the River Plate when it hunted down the pride of the German navy, the Admiral Graf Spee, was located by divers searching ...

What he did not know was the masts belonged to HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles. They were soon identified but, in an unusually aggressive move for the measured Langsdorff, he chose to ...

The HMS Exeter is one of the best known British warships of the Second World War. Inside Out follows the ship's veterans on an emotional journey to Indonesia. Series Producer Dimitri Houtart tells ...

HMS Exeter being launched in 1929 - five years before the Admiral Graf Spee The Admiral Graf Spee With her keel laid in Wilhelmshaven on October 1, 1932, the Admiral Graf Spee was launched on June ...

The Portsmouth based frigate, currently undertaking tasking in the Far East, laid wreaths over the recently found wreck of cruiser HMS Exeter during a ceremony attended by the British Ambassador ...

The wreck of HMS Exeter was eventually discovered in the Java Sea using side scan sonar - and the assistance of an original Japanese Navy battle chart - on the evening of February 21, 2007 ...

HMS Exeter, the last surviving operational Royal Navy warship which took part in the Falklands War, will retire from service on Wednesday. 27 May 2009 • 7:32am A decommissioning ceremony to mark ...

War grave HMS Exeter is being plundered for scrap metal and the bodies of sailors who drowned aboard her are being dumped in mass graves. Reports in Indonesian media say dredgers have been ...

He was the last surviving member of HMS Exeter in the Battle of the River Plate in December 1939. The veteran also had a long career as local government officer, initially at Gosport and then in ...

A special service has been remembering the crew of HMS Exeter which sank in the Far East during the Second World War. Around fifty men were killed as the ship went down. But many more died at the ...

The Sea Dart missiles, which have a range of 40 miles, used to protect HMS Exeter and HMS Southampton against enemy planes and missiles. Now 4.5inch guns give them their main protection.