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Wednesday, 24 April 2013

New Japanese 10.000 tons cruiser resembled German pocket battleship according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1933 no. 5

Admiral Graf Spee

An item referred to the magazine Proc. dated July 1933 reporting that the new Japanese 10.000 tons cruiser being built at Yokohama to have a lot of agreement with the German battleship.(1)

Note
1. This must be one of the so—called German pocket battleships of the Deutschland-class. The Admiral Graf Spee was the third ship of this class and her keel was laid down on 1 October 1932 at the Kriegsmarinewerft at Wilhelmshaven.