The Graf Spee fought them off with devastatingly accurate ... though many scuba divers still explore her hulk underwater and occasionally perish in the tangle. Efforts to remove the wreck as ...

And in 1998, a 155mm gun from the ship’s secondary armament was salvaged. The underwater salvage group planned to bring up more cannons and other pieces of the Graf Spee, but were barred from doing so ...

The underwater salvage group planned to bring up more cannons and other pieces of the Graf Spee, but were barred from doing so by a Uruguayan government decree. After the recovery of the Nazi ...

The Graf Spee was spotted by ships from the British ... The team has assembled state-of-the-art computer equipment to aid them in their underwater search for debris - and to attach the mammoth ...

‘We sent down an (underwater vehicle ... The head of the surviving family, Wilhelm Graf von Spee, labelled the find ‘bittersweet’. Mr Bound is well known in the maritime archaeology world ...

With Germany lacking major warships at the war’s outset, the Kriegsmarine relied on smaller “pocket battleships” like the Admiral Graf Spee. On December 13, 1939, Graf Spee confronted three ...

It once sat atop the Admiral Graf Spee, a German heavy cruiser that was scuttled in Montevideo Bay in 1939 after sustaining damage in the first naval battle of World War II. Now it’s in storage ...

The future of a bronze eagle which once adorned the Nazi-era battleship Admiral Graf Spee remains uncertain after plans to melt it down were scrapped. Treasure hunters raised the eagle in 2006 off ...