July 2010 Publishers of Warship International
The German “Panzerschiffe” Admiral Graf Spee. The photograph is from a contemporary post card with the date of mailing of 11-6-38. This dates the photograph as being taken between 1936, when the ship was completed, and 1938. The photograph shows the crew attending to the ship’s connection at a mooring buoy. The ship participated in the first major surface engagement of WW II when she encountered three RN cruisers in the South Atlantic in December 1939. On 17 December the crew scuttled the vessel near the entrance to the harbor of Montevideo. The wreckage of the ship still remains where she sank in shallow water. It is reported that attempts are now being made to salvage small portions of the ship.
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