Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Nazi government needed time to negotiate the Anglo-German Naval Agreement, which allowed new battleship construction. Laid down in 1935, the first two ships of ...

Scharnhorst remained at Kiel for most of 1942. In early 1943, it proceeded to Norway with Prinz Eugen (Gneisenau had been badly damaged by an RAF attack on Kiel, and would not return to service).

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Montevideo, Uraguay – Experts working to recover parts of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, sunk 66 years ago in Montevideo Bay, successfully ...

Friedrich Adolph, 89, the last surviving sailor in Uruguay from the famous German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, which was sunk off the South American nation’s coast early in World War II, has ...

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 ...

During the early, dark days of World War II, England achieved its first major naval victory with the sinking of the mighty German pocket battleship Graf Spee, which had been a menace to Allied ...