An item dated Buenos Aires, Argentina 13 December reported that the German cruiser Admiral Scheer (1) sunk the British cruiser HMS Achilles (2) in a battle 200 miles from the Uruguayan coast. In a second item dated London, England 13 December stated the British Admiralty that as far as known the Achilles was not sunk.
Notes
1. Armoured ship or Panzerschiff, later classified as heavy cruiser. Laid down by Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven, Germany on 25 June 1931, launched on 1 April 1933, commissioned on 12 November 1934 and sunk by British air attack on Kiel, Germany. 9 April 1945. Partially broken up and what left of her is lying below a quay. Known by the Allies as a pocket battle ship. Of the Deutschland-class.
2. Pennant 22. Of the Leander-class light cruisers consisting of the Leander, Orion, Neptune, Ajax, Achilles, Amphion, Apollo and Sydney). With the Leander and the Perth-Sydney-Hobart forming sub classes. Preceded by the Emerald class and succeeded by the Arethusa-class. Building ordered on 1 October 1932, laid down at Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness, England on 7 February 1933, launched on 1 March 1934, commissioned on 12 April 1935, participated in the Battle of Rio de Plata against the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee on 13 December 1939, decommissioned in February 1948, a sale to India was cancelled by Winston Churchill, after temporarily being grounded arrived she at Cashmore’s, Newport, England to be broken up on 18 November 1949.
3. This was the Battle of the River Plata in which the Achilles was involved. Accompanied by the HMS Exeter and Ajax against the sister ship of the Admiral Scheer namelijk the Admiral Graf Spee.
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