Naval Art Prints of the German Heavy
Cruiser or Pocket battleship The Admiral Graf Spee. These naval art prints
of the Graf Spee are by leading naval artists, Ivan Berryman, Randall
Wilson and Simon Atack
ADMIRAL GRAFF SPEE, Built at Wilhelmshaven Navy Yard
and launched 30th June 1934 and commissioned 6th January 1936, from the
outset of The second World war, she quickly operated as a commerce raider
sinking a total of 50,089 tons of shipping. After an engagement
against three British Cruisers, HMS Ajax, Exeter and Achilles, she went to
Rio De Janeiro, where after hearing that a larger British naval force was
waiting for her to depart, she was Scuttled in the Rio de la Plata estuary
on the 17th December 1939, This superior British Force never existed, and
has been invented by British Intelligence and had bluffed the Graf Spee
captain. After the loss of the Graf Spee, Hitler ordered that the Cruiser Deutschland
should be renamed Lutzow incase the ship carrying the name of Germany
should be sunk
