The Admiral Scheer, one of Germany’s powerful pocket battleships, roared forward at full speed to attack an Allied convoy of 38 merchant ships. Armed with six 28-centimeter guns and reaching an ...

Gustav Friedrich Adolph Quick, 89, the last surviving crew member of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee that was scuttled in the River Plate at the beginning of World War II, has passed away ...

Soon after the outbreak of World War II, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, one of the fastest and most modern warships in the world, began to cut some dangerous gaps into the vital ...