The Battle of the River Plate
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Battle
At dawn the three cruisers split up and charge the far more powerful German ship to divide her fire.
What happened here
On 13 December 1939 the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, which had been raiding merchant shipping in the South Atlantic, met the British cruisers Exeter, Ajax and Achilles off the estuary. After a running battle she took refuge in neutral Montevideo. Believing a larger British force was waiting, Captain Hans Langsdorff scuttled his ship in the estuary on 17 December and took his own life three days later.
Films and series set in River Plate
World on Fire
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Battle
Lois's brother Tom, now in the Royal Navy, sees his first action against a German raider in the South Atlantic.
