Admiral Graf Spee was a Deutschland-class Panzerschiff (armored ship), nicknamed a "pocket battleship" by the British, which served with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II.

2024年12月27日 · Graf Spee, German pocket battleship of 10,000 tons launched in 1936. The Graf Spee was more heavily gunned than any cruiser and had a top speed of 25 knots and an endurance of 12,500 miles (20,000 km).

2023年7月24日 · The Admiral Graf Spee was a German “pocket battleship” that played a significant role during the early stages of World War II, most notably in disrupting Allied merchant shipping. The ship is perhaps best known for the Battle of the River Plate in December 1939, where it engaged a squadron of British cruisers before seeking refuge in a ...

2019年10月2日 · At 6:18 AM, Admiral Graf Spee opened the Battle of the River Plate by firing on Exeter with its main guns while its secondary armament targeted Ajax and Achilles. Over the next half hour, the German vessel hammered Exeter disabling both its …

2015年8月25日 · The German pocket battleship ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE in flames after being scuttled off Montevideo, Uruguay, after the Battle of the River Plate, 17 December 1939.

They were seasoned sailors, these captains and mates of the nine British ships captured and sunk by the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, and not happy to be pounded by British gunfire. A second shell landed near their prison, and more alarm was heard from the stalwart sailors.

2019年2月28日 · ‘Admiral Graf Spee’ at the Spithead Naval Review representing Germany at the coronation of King George VI. Germany sent its flagship the Admiral Graf Spee to represent the country. She was one of three new Deutschland-class battleships or Panzershiffe, as the Germans called them.

2024年7月24日 · Named after Admiral Maximilian von Spee, who died in the Battle of the Falkland Islands during World War I, the Graf Spee was one of the most advanced warships of its time. Commissioned in 1936, the Graf Spee was a Deutschland-class Panzerschiff, or “armored ship.”

Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee in December 1939 After World War I the Versailles Treaty limited the construction of new warships in Germany. It was allowed to keep six old battleships of the Deutschland and Lothringen class, six small cruisers, 12 DDs and 12 torpedo boats.

The Admiral Graf Spee was one of the much celebrated German naval warships of World War II, along with the Bismarck. Her size was restricted to that of a cruiser by the Treaty of Versailles, nevertheless she was as heavily armed as a battleship due to innovative weight saving procedures employed in her manufacture.