The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
View of the German vessel Panzerschiffe Admiral Graf Spee showing shell damage after an attack. The Admiral Graf Spee was used to harass Allied merchant shipping. It was scuttled by her captain Hans Longsdorf after being unable to complete repairs within the timeframe allowed by the Uruguayan government after the Battle of the River Plate off the Montevideo coast.
MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY, 1939-12-17. THE GRAF SPEE, A GERMAN SHIP USED TO HARASS ALLIED MERCHANT SHIPPING, ON FIRE AND LISTING BADLY, AFTER BEING, SCUTTLED BY HER CAPTAIN WHEN CORNERED BY THE BRITISH NEAR
MONTEVIDEO, 1939-12-17. THE GRAF SPEE, A GERMAN SHIP USED TO HARASS ALLIED MERCHANT SHIPPING, SCUTTLED BY HER OWN CREW WHEN CORNERED BY THE BRITISH NEAR MONTEVIDEO.
View of the German armoured ship (pocket battleship) Panzerschiffe Admiral Graf Spee. The Admiral Graf Spee was commissioned in 1936 and in September 1939 was released for operations against Allied me
An unidentified, possibly British, mechant vessel falls victim to the German vessel Panzerschiffe Admiral Graf Spee, used harassed Allied Merchant shipping. The Admiral Graf Spee sunk 10 British ships
MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY, 1939, THE COMMANDER OF THE ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE, CAPTAIN HANS LANGSDORFF, CENTRE, WHO SCUTTLED HIS SHIP AND COMMITTED SUICIDE WHEN CORNERED BY THE BRITISH NEAR MONTEVIDEO, IN THE ACT
Smoke pours from the scuttled German armoured ship (pocket battleship) Panzerschiffe Admiral Graf Spee. Her forward 11 inch gun turret is engulfed in smoke. Abaft is her tower superstructure surmounte
