Strong winds in the river Plate, the estuary that divides Argentina from Uruguay, delayed attempts yesterday to recover the wreck of the Graf Spee, the 10,000-ton German warship scuttled after one ...

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 ...

The wreck of the Graf Spee is no longer visible on the surface. Scrap salvagers and astonishingly violent storms on the River Plate have leveled the superstructure, ...

Gingerly, and with the utmost delicacy, bits from the Graf Spee - the German pocket battleship whose captain was fooled by the Royal Navy and British diplomats into scuttling her in Uruguayan ...

Realizing the ship couldn’t evade the British navy, the Graf Spee’s captain, Hans Langsdorff, ordered it scuttled in shallow waters on December 17. The sinking of the Graf Spee helped boost the ...

The wreck of one of the Second World War's most famous warships has been found by deep sea explorers, 66 years after it was lost in battle. ... the Admiral Graf Spee, ...

The SMS Scharnhorst, the flagship of Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee’s East Asia Squadron, was found in the South Atlantic after a five-year search. The discovery was made 98 nautical miles ...

The wreck of one of the most famous German warships of World War I has been located on the seafloor near the Falkland Islands, where it sank in a battle with British warships more than 100 years ago.

Maritime archaeologists have located the wreck of the S.M.S. Scharnhorst, an armored battle cruiser that served as the flagship of German Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee’s East Asia Squadron ...