MONTEVIDEO -- I watched from the vantage point of an airplane while explosions wrecked the doomed German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and she sank in the estuary of the river Plate. The pilot ...

In this Nazi propaganda broadcast, Lord Haw-Haw reports that British cruiser HMS Exeter has "run aground" off the Falklands after an encounter with German battleship Graf Spee in the coastal waters of ...

It was Dec. 13, 1939, and all German sailor Freiderich ”Fritz” Adolf could think of was going home to Frankfurt for Christmas. The 20-year-old had been at sea for four months in his first long voyage, ...

A salvage team used a floating crane to raise a key piece of a sunken German battleship Wednesday, lifting a 27-ton part of the command tower after weeks of failed attempts. Retired Navy Capt. Alberto ...

A German warship called Graf Spee, which sank off Uruguay's coast in 1939 during the early days of World War II, is at the center of a growing debate. Many want to raise the ship and make it a tourist ...

The bronze eagle was retrieved from the Graf Spee in 2006 Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Friday announced that the bronze eagle retrieved from the wreckage of the German World War II battleship ...

The 7-ton anchor which once belonged to the Reichsmarine's Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee sank off the coast of Montevideo in December 1939, marking the end to the Battle of the River Plate against ...