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  2. German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee - Wikipedia

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    Admiral Graf Spee was the first German warship to be equipped with radar. [6] A FMG G(gO) "Seetakt" set [7] [a] was mounted on the foretop range finder. [5] Admiral Graf Spee ' s primary armament was six 28 cm (11 in) SK C/28 guns mounted in two triple gun turrets, one forward and one aft of the superstructure.

  3. Deutschland-class cruiser - Wikipedia

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    Admiral Scheer and Admiral Graf Spee had some improvements in armor thickness. The barbettes, 100 mm thick in Deutschland, became 125 mm for the two sisters. Admiral Scheer had the belt somewhat improved, and Admiral Graf Spee had a much more improved 100 mm belt, instead of 50–80 mm. The armored deck was improved as well, and some places had ...

  4. HMS Ajax (22) - Wikipedia

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    When the German raider, Admiral Graf Spee, became a threat, Force G was formed from Ajax (flagship, Commodore Henry Harwood), Exeter and Achilles, all cruisers.(Cumberland, also part of this force, was undergoing a refit at Port Stanley [17]). Force G located and engaged Graf Spee on 13 December, despite the German warship's greater firepower.

  5. Battle of the River Plate - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of the River Plate was fought in the South Atlantic on 13 December 1939 as the first British naval battle of the Second World War.. The Kriegsmarine heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, commanded by Captain Hans Langsdorff, engaged a Royal Navy squadron, [1] [2] commanded by Commodore Henry Harwood, [3] comprising the light cruisers HMS Ajax, HMNZS Achilles (on loan to the New Zealand ...

  6. Seetakt - Wikipedia

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    The Admiral Graf Spee used this unit successfully against shipping in the Atlantic. In December 1939, after heavy fighting during the Battle of the River Plate, the Admiral Graf Spee was severely damaged and the captain scuttled the ship in the neutral harbor off Montevideo, Uruguay. The ship sank in shallow water, with its radar antenna visible.

  7. Graf Spee - Wikipedia

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    or to several German ships that were named after the admiral: SMS Graf Spee, incomplete Mackensen-class battlecruiser of World War I, scrapped in 1923; The German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, launched in 1934, that saw action in World War II; HMS Flamingo, later renamed Graf Spee, a former Royal Navy Black Swan-class sloop used as a Bundesmarine ...

  8. German cruiser Deutschland - Wikipedia

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    Faced with the arrival of Deutschland, its two sister ships Admiral Scheer and Admiral Graf Spee, the light cruisers Köln, Leipzig, and Nürnberg, and several destroyers, torpedo boats and mine sweepers, the Lithuanian government accepted the German ultimatum to Lithuania and ceded the Memel region to Germany. [24]

  9. HMS Exeter (68) - Wikipedia

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    The ship was hit by a total of seven 283 mm shells that killed 61 of her crew and wounded another 23. In return, the cruiser had hit Admiral Graf Spee three times; one shell penetrated her main armour belt and narrowly missed detonating in one of her engine rooms, but the most important of these disabled her oil-purification equipment. Without ...