The 7-ton anchor which once belonged to the Reichsmarine's Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee sank off the coast of Montevideo in December 1939, marking the end to the Battle of the River Plate against ...

It was Dec. 13, 1939, and all German sailor Freiderich ”Fritz” Adolf could think of was going home to Frankfurt for Christmas. The 20-year-old had been at sea for four months in his first long voyage, ...

On the 80th anniversary of the first naval battle of the Second World War, Naval historian Michael Wynd, from the Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy, reflects on the New Zealand ship that played an ...

MONTEVIDEO -- I watched from the vantage point of an airplane while explosions wrecked the doomed German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and she sank in the estuary of the river Plate. The pilot ...

Finally after weeks of frustrated attempts a team of divers with the help of a floating crane from the port of Montevideo, Uruguay, managed this Wednesday evening to recover the range finder of the ...

Wounded and out of options, Admiral Graf Spee sought refuge in neutral Montevideo, where diplomatic pressure and clever British deception forced a fateful decision. Captain Hans Langsdorff scuttled ...

An Uruguayan worker directs the 2006 salvage of the eagle from the World War II German warship Admiral Graf Spee, in Montevideo. (Marcelo Hernandez/AP) MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — A court in Uruguay ruled ...

Tricky winds and river currents stymied salvage experts’ repeated attempts Monday to raise a piece of the submerged wreckage of a German battleship scuttled off Uruguay in the opening days of World ...

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 the ...

A total of 5 shipgirls are featured in this collaboration. USS Baltimore, HMS Queen Elizabeth, IJN Fusou, KMS Scharnhorst, and Admiral Graf Spee will appear as shipgirl captains in World of Warships: ...