The Graf Spee must be able to destroy her three hunters at River Plate. Admiral Graf Spee was a Deutschland-class "Panzerschiff" (armored ship), nicknamed a "pocket battleship" by the British, which served with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II. Link to post Share on other sites. Three 14,500-ton Admiral Hipper-class cruisers, Hipper, Blucher, and Prinz Eugen, each carried eight 8-inch guns in four turrets. [41] On 10 February 2006, the 2 m (6 ft 7 in), 400 kilograms (880 lb) eagle and swastika crest of Admiral Graf Spee was recovered from the stern of the ship;[42] it was stored in a Uruguayan naval warehouse following German complaints about exhibiting "Nazi paraphernalia". Following fleet maneuvers and a brief visit to Sweden, the ship conducted a fifth and final patrol in February 1938. [11] On the return voyage from Spain, Admiral Graf Spee stopped in Great Britain to represent Germany in the Coronation Review at Spithead for King George VI on 20 May. Thanks though! The guns are overkill for cruisers but don’t punish BBs enough. Ho scelto la terza nave tedesca, perché essa è la più potente e matura delle tre, sebbene quella con le qualità marine meno buone (per via del peso aggiuntivo). On 15 October, Admiral Graf Spee rendezvoused with Altmark to refuel and transfer prisoners; the following morning, the prize Huntsman joined the two ships. Captive Allied seamen still aboard the ship were released. A certain hazy sense of purpose surrounds these two ships. On May 24, the pride of the Royal Navy, the huge battlecruiser HMS Hood, met up with Bismarck in the Denmark Strait. 1,779 posts. Most notably, her main battery is comprised of 283mm guns: the same caliber as Tier III battleship Nassau and Tier VII battleship Scharnhorst.With an alpha damage of 8,400 per shell and a 20 second reload time, the guns perform exceptionally well … At a cruising speed of 18.69 knots (34.61 km/h; 21.51 mph), the ship had a range of 16,300 nautical miles (30,200 km; 18,800 mi). Josef Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, certainly the master of deceit and spin control, would have been the logical one to say it, but he was too smart. The British made some very good naval combat pictures set in WWII. The purpose of that foray was to divert Allied warships away from the South Atlantic, and to confuse the Allies about his intentions. [2] The ship's top speed was 28.5 knots (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph), at 54,000 PS (53,260 shp; 39,720 kW). Graf Spee vs Zara E così eccoci al grande confronto. The British Admiralty immediately issued a warning to merchant shipping that a German surface raider was in the area. This was a deliberate ploy to avoid having to break out past the Royal Navy. During World War I, the old tactic of battleships steaming in parallel lines battering away at one another ended with the epic Battle of Jutland. [2] Ordered as Ersatz Braunschweig, Admiral Graf Spee replaced the old pre-dreadnought battleship Braunschweig. I was excited that there was now a 1/350th scale World War II German ship other than Bismarck or Tirpitz. 104.490 million: Heavy Cruiser Blücher: RM. [8] After joining the fleet, Admiral Graf Spee became the flagship of the German Navy. 379 battles. La sua corazzatura rende la Spee la più affidabile delle tre, quando sottoposta a … At 05:52, however, the ship was identified as HMS Exeter; she was accompanied by a pair of smaller warships, initially thought to be destroyers but quickly identified as Leander-class cruisers. Both cover true events. Engage! 82 million: Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen: RM. By this time, Admiral Graf Spee had cruised for almost 30,000 nautical miles (56,000 km; 35,000 mi) and needed an engine overhaul. In fact, rather than the most powerful battleship in the world, she was actually among the ranks of less heavily armed capital warships in 1941. In an early scene, German Fleet Admiral Günther Lütjens addresses the crew of the battleship as they head out to the Atlantic. [24] On 15 November, the ship sank the tanker MV Africa Shell, and the following day, she stopped an unidentified Dutch steamer, though did not sink her. ), not even a contest. Woke: Yamato was a better battleship than Iowa. Admiral Graf Spee was a Deutschland-class panzerschiffe (armored ship) that entered service with the German Kriegsmarine in 1936. The ship conducted five non-intervention patrols during the Spanish Civil War in 1936–1938, and participated in the Coronation Review of King George VI in May 1937. The Battle of the River Plate was fought in the South Atlantic on 13 December 1939 as the first naval battle of the Second World War.The Kriegsmarine heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, commanded by Captain Hans Langsdorff, engaged a Royal Navy squadron, commanded by Commodore Henry Harwood, which consisted of the cruisers HMS Ajax, HMS Achilles (on loan … In the span of thirty minutes, Admiral Graf Spee had hit Exeter three times, disabling her two forward turrets, destroying her bridge and her aircraft catapult, and starting major fires. The loss of the Graf Spee was a blow to the prestige of Hitler's small but expensive navy, for which even the loss of a single heavy warship was significant. But it was most often a constant duel between size, weight of armor, speed, and gun caliber. [10], After the conclusion of the Review, Admiral Graf Spee returned to Spain for a fourth non-intervention patrol. Hood and Bismarck carried almost identical main armament. Members. [32] Both sides broke off the action, Admiral Graf Spee retreating into the River Plate estuary, while Harwood's battered cruisers remained outside to observe any possible breakout attempts. The Hood and PoW must be able to destroy Bismarck. They used the knowledge thus acquired to try to develop countermeasures, under the leadership of Fred Hoyle at the British radar project. Bismarck 1940-1941: vector: DKM Admiral Graf Spee (1939) 905 x 319: DKM Admiral Graf Spee (1939) vector: DKM Admiral Graf Spee (Pocket Battleship) 975 x 605: DKM Admiral Graf Spee (Pocket Battleship) 971 x 653: DKM Admiral Graf Spee (Pocket Battleship) 668 x 361: DKM Admiral Graf Spee (Pocket Battleship) 668 x 369: DKM Admiral Hipper: 600 x 250 aircraft carrier. The Graf Spee was Germany's largest warship until the commissioning of the battleship Hutton in 1942. Tirpitz is better suited for stand-off fights or in one-on-one situations like rushing down bow-on campers. Between 18 April and 17 May 1939, she conducted another cruise into the Atlantic, stopping in the ports of Ceuta and Lisbon. Graf Spee, German pocket battleship of 10,000 tons launched in 1936. Since the battlecruisers were traditionally meant to act as fast scouts rather than capital ships, this betrays an uncertainty in the Kriegsmarine as to what their role was meant to be. I don't know about warships but a warship wasn't supposed to leave within 24 hours of a enemy flagged merchant ship. Repairs necessary to make the ship seaworthy were expected to take up to two weeks. Against Graf Spee, she likely has a minimal if any immune zone, but the same goes for Graf Spee vs. the 335 lb 8" shell the Salem would be firing. Atlantic Fleet HMS Barham vs dkm admiral graf spee - YouTube [34], After arriving in port, the wounded crewmen were taken to local hospitals and the dead were buried with full military honors. [32], As a result of battle damage and casualties, Langsdorff decided to put into Montevideo, where repairs could be effected and the wounded men could be evacuated from the ship. On May 24, the two dreadnaughts, Hood and Bismarck engaged one another in a mighty battleship versus battleship shoot-out. Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, commander of the Kriegsmarine, first commissioned the building of three Deutschland-class cruisers, Deutschland, Admiral Scheer, and Admiral Graf Spee. 7:16. ... May 1941: this was her livery when she famously accompanied battleship Bismarck into the North Atlantic that month. After a careful study of the major warships of the time, it appears the mighty Bismarck’s bark was worse than its bite. Like many other historical icons, Bismarck’s power has been greatly magnified and distorted. Dustin Poirier. Ho scelto la terza nave tedesca, perché essa è la più potente e matura delle tre, sebbene quella con le qualità marine meno buone (per via del peso aggiuntivo). After sinking several merchant ships in the Atlantic, the Graf Spee was sighted on Dec. 13, 1939, On 8 October, the following day, she sank Newton Beech,[20] which Langsdorff had been using to house prisoners. Casualties: 36 dead and 60 wounded. [21] Newton Beech was too slow to keep up with Admiral Graf Spee, and so the prisoners were transferred to the cruiser. Key point: For nine days, she ruled the seas. look at that sun,the superb beach,the white sands,the best way for a ship to sink,al she needs is some cocktail and coconuts. While she was officially classified as a Mackensen-class battlecruiser, she was much larger than the others, and had more incommon with the Nassau-class battleship. Academy now offers an excellent 1/350 Graf Spee with lots of appeal. This is a 1/350 Plastic Bismarck German Battleship Model Kit from Academy Plastics. 17-may-2016 - Explora el tablero de JI Botton Capdevila "BISMARCK, YAMATO Y GRAF SPEE" en Pinterest. The PoW and Repulse must be able to stop the Japanese Invasion Forces. Admiral Graf Spee fired on her again, scored more hits, and forced Exeter to withdraw again, this time with a list to port. Langsdorff was ordered to avoid combat, even with inferior opponents, and to frequently change position. Admiral Graf Spee inflicted heavy damage on the British ships, but she too was damaged, and was forced to put into port at Montevideo, Uruguay. Hitler seems to have forgotten this minor point. [35] British naval intelligence worked to convince Langsdorff that vastly superior forces were concentrating to destroy his ship, if he attempted to break out of the harbor. The USN cruisers lack torpedos, but none of the RN torpedoes actually struck the Graf, so that may be a moot point. ", Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in December 1939, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=German_cruiser_Admiral_Graf_Spee&oldid=1006060275, Military units and formations of Nazi Germany in the Spanish Civil War, World War II shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean, World War II shipwrecks in the South Atlantic, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 10 February 2021, at 20:43. On 10 October, she captured the steamer Huntsman, the captain of which had not sent a distress signal until the last minute, as he had mistakenly identified Admiral Graf Spee as a French warship. Bespoke: Kongou was a better battleship than North Carolina. [38], On 20 December, in his room in a Buenos Aires hotel, Langsdorff shot himself in full dress uniform while lying on the ship's battle ensign. Convinced by false reports of superior British naval forces approaching his ship, Hans Langsdorff, the commander of the ship, ordered the vessel to be scuttled. Formidable in themselves, they were soon superseded. Battling back against these limitations on the warship, it was able to fight back against these problems as listed above and, once the war commenced, … don't worry about the radio ruse,graf spee still have the upper hand,people can see her.can't say much about bismarck. Bismarck, the lead ship, went to action stations and Captain Lindemann announced at 20:30 to the crew “Feind in Sicht an Backbord, Schiff nimmt Gefecht auf! [2] The ship was launched on 30 June 1934; at her launching, she was christened by the daughter of Admiral Maximilian von Spee, the ship's namesake. ... Battleship Bismarck Forums ↳ Bismarck General Discussion ↳ Bismarck Crewmember Research ↳ The Wreck of the Bismarck; 1,090 posts. Share this post. Hence the famous scene in th The closest heavy units—the carrier Ark Royal and battlecruiser Renown—were some 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) away, much too far to intervene in the situation. 192 ragster. [9] The salvage rights were purchased from the German Government by the British, for £14,000, using a Montevideo engineering company as a front. The operation was in part being funded by the government of Uruguay, in part by the private sector as the wreck was a hazard to navigation. Otherwise, it was a great victory. When the Third Reich dawned in 1933, Germany had already begun a massive shipbuilding program. Admiral Graf Spee took Clement's captain and chief engineer prisoner but left the rest of her crew to abandon ship in the lifeboats. Link to post Share on other sites. While officially heavy cruisers, they were euphemistically called “pocket battleships.” Each “panzerschiff,” or armored ship, carried six 11-inch guns in two turrets as its main armament. 1,107 … The USN cruisers lack torpedos, but none of the RN torpedoes actually struck the Graf, so that may be a moot point. Bismarck was the all-consuming obsession of the British Admiralty. The battleship Bismarck under construction at the Blohm & Voss Shipyard in Hamburg. [10] In the summer of 1936, following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, she deployed to the Atlantic to participate in non-intervention patrols off the Republican-held coast of Spain. When she and her consort, the Prinz Eugen, finally left the Baltic and Norwegian waters to head out to the Atlantic, the fate of Great Britain was uncertain. [40], In February 2004, a salvage team began work raising the wreck of Admiral Graf Spee. In four separate encounters on May 31, 1916, two huge fleets met off Danish Jutland in the North Sea. Unable to accommodate the crew from Huntsman, Admiral Graf Spee sent the ship to a rendezvous location with a prize crew. (Enemy sighted to port. )”. For more than 70 years Bismarck’s superiority has been taken for granted. Page 4 of 5 < Prev 1 2 3 ... with an armor scheme most resembling a true battleship. 1 1 Share this post. [12] She also participated in extensive fleet maneuvers in German waters. The Bismarck class had eight fifteen-inch guns, each capable of hurling an armor piercing, capped round up to 21.75 miles. Trending. A Deutschland-class panzerschiffe (armored ship), Admiral Graf Spee's design was intended to nominally conform to the naval restrictions set forth by the Treaty of Versailles which ended World War I.These limited future German warships to 10,000 long tons. HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales intercept DKM Bismarck and the heavy cruiser DKM Prinz Eugen in … The German death toll was more than 2,000. Mohamed Gomaa27. 1982 first edition Paperback. The 1960 film added to the legend, and in time it was taken as fact. [2] The ship also carried a pair of quadruple 53.3 cm (21 in) deck-mounted torpedo tubes placed on her stern. German U-Boat Type VII B Submarine. RELIC OF WW2 AND EXTREMELY RARE AS MOST SHIPS WERE SUNK OR SCUTTLED, GRAF SPEE WAS SUNK IN MONTEVIDEO URUGUAI . I like the ship enough, more than Queen Elizabeth but I don’t have Warspite for a direct comparison. Who would win it a pitched battle between the cream of the axis and allied battleships no other class of ships no airpower just battleships. But the world has never seen such ships! Post by Monitor » Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:32 am The three German pocket battleships versus the Japanese Yamato. In 1938, the 8.8 cm guns were removed, and six 10.5 cm (4.1 in) L/65 guns, four 3.7 cm (1.5 in) SK C/30 guns, and ten 2 cm (0.79 in) C/30 guns were installed in their place. German Capital Ships and Raiders in World War II: Volume I: From Graf Spee to Bismarck 1939-1941. Share this post. It's for ages 10 and up. The ship was partially broken up in situ, though part of the ship remained visible above the surface of the water. Even when the biggest guns were employed, it was armor protection that mattered most. A hit in the bow would also have negatively affected her seaworthiness in the heavy seas of the North Atlantic. She would be … But most legends have no more validity than what one accepts at face value. A beaming Hitler attended the ceremonies. ... Aircraft Carrier Graf Zeppelin: RM. [2], Admiral Graf Spee's primary armament was six 28 cm (11 in) SK C/28 guns mounted in two triple gun turrets, one forward and one aft of the superstructure. [31] At around 07:00, Exeter returned to the engagement, firing from her stern turret. We are going to sink their ships until they no longer dare to let them sail! But how did it start? I can now tell you that we are going out into the North Atlantic to attack the British convoys. The ship was equipped with two Arado Ar 196 seaplanes and one catapult. Model builder William Terra from Maine, USA has created an incredible 1:20 replica of the famous German cruiser Admrial Graf Spee which served during World War II. Graf Spee: 12000 tons? © Copyright 2021 Center for the National Interest All Rights Reserved. [9], Admiral Graf Spee spent the first three months of her career conducting extensive sea trials to ready the ship for service. [38] A crowd of 20,000 watched as the scuttling charges were set; the crew was taken off by an Argentine tug and the ship was scuttled at 20:55. Less than 10 minutes after they opened fire on each other, the mighty Hood received a hit that pierced her main ammunition magazines and exploded in a massive detonation that killed all but three of her 1,400 crewmen. The Admiral Graf Spee. The ‘pocket battleship’ was armed with six 28 cm (11 in) guns in two triple gun turrets, and was designed to outgun any cruiser fast enough to catch it. The Admiralty broadcast a series of signals, on frequencies known to be intercepted by German intelligence. Most notably, her main battery is comprised of 283mm guns: the same caliber as Tier III battleship Nassau and Tier VII battleship Scharnhorst.With an alpha damage of 8,400 per shell and a 20 second reload time, the guns perform exceptionally well against lightly-armored … Hitler proudly stated that Bismarck and her sister Tirpitz were the “most powerful warships ever built in Germany.” That too is not fully accurate. The Bismarck class had eight fifteen-inch guns, each capable of hurling an armor piercing, capped round up to 21.75 miles. 90 million (1938) Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee: RM. [32] The respite allowed Exeter to withdraw from the action; by now, only one of her gun turrets was still in action, and she had suffered 61 dead and 23 wounded crew members. [38] In late January 1940, the neutral American cruiser USS Helena arrived in Montevideo and the crew was permitted to visit the wreck of Admiral Graf Spee. She was laid down at the Reichsmarinewerft shipyard in Wilhelmshaven in October 1932 and completed by January 1936. Armed with six 28 cm (11 in) guns in two triple gun turrets, Admiral Graf Spee and her sisters were designed to outgun any cruiser fast enough to catch them. Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, commander of the Kriegsmarine, first commissioned the building of three Deutschland-class cruisers, Deutschland, Admiral Scheer, and Admiral Graf Spee. The prisoners aboard Huntsman were transferred to Altmark and Langsdorff then sank Huntsman on the night of 17 October. I don't know about warships but a warship wasn't supposed to leave within 24 hours of a enemy flagged merchant ship. Another factor for the WW1 battles is that the RN had defective AP shells, something that was not corrected until the end of the war. She carried no less than eight 15-inch guns, the same as Bismarck would carry 23 years later. The prize crew recovered secret documents containing shipping route information. Graf Spee has 3 perma camos, four if you count the Alternate pattern. The first major section—a 27 metric tons (27 long tons; 30 short tons) gunnery rangefinding telemeter—was raised on 25 February. It was range, armor protection, and accuracy. [18] Force G, commanded by Commodore Henry Harwood and assigned to the east coast of South America, comprised the cruisers Cumberland and Exeter. 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