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Saturday 8 July 2017

German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee allowed to stay at Montevideo, Uruguay according to the Dutch newspaper Soerabaijsch handelsblad dated 15 December 1939


An item dated Washington, USA 14th reported that the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee was permitted to stay for 48 hours at Montevideo, Uruguay.(1)

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1. Of the Deutschland-class armoured ships well known as pocket battleships later classified as heavy cruisers. Laid down by Reichsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven, Germany on 1 October 1932, launched on 30 June 1934, commissioned on 6 January 1936, after the Battle of the River Plata with British/New Zealand cruisers on 13 December, scuttled by her own crew in the harbour of Montevideo, Uruguay on 17 December 1939.