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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But, as the win in Glasgow showed, Williams - once described by former Wales captain Gareth Llewellyn as a "pocket-battleship" because of his hard lines and deceptive turn of pace - looks likely ...

The German navy pocket battleship Graf von Spee took refuge in the port of Montevideo in December 1939 chased by three Royal Navy vessels. However Uruguayan authorities of the time gave the vessel ...