German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee of the Nazi Kriegsmarine in the sea.
“Admiral Graf Spee” is the German cruiser of third and most perfect German heavy cruiser of the “Deutschland” type of the Second World War. In the pre-war German fleet was considered a battleship (Panzerschiffe). In the naval literature of the German cruisers of this type are widely known as “Pocket battleship” – the ironic classification of ships, invented by the British media of the 1930s.
Date: 1939