An item dated London, England 19th December referred
to an interview of captain Langsdorff for Radio New York that during his voyage
the name of his ship the Admiral Graf Spee several times was changed in
Deutschland of Admiral Scheer. This was done to suggest that in the same area 3
pocket battleships were active.(1)
Note
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.
