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 ...

Langsdorff blew up his own ship Dec. 17 and eventually committed suicide in Buenos Aires. The Graf Spee's wreckage has for decades been an attraction off the coast of Montevideo when downspouts ...

The Royal Navy has been accused of renaming new attack submarine HMS Agincourt to avoid upsetting the French. The seventh ...

Compared to the German squadron, the British ships were obsolete ... In 1934 Germany named a new heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee in honour of ‘the hero of Coronel’. In December 1939, she ...