In early 1940, the German tanker Altmark attempted to evade the Royal Navy while carrying 300 Allied POWs, captured from ships sunk by the Admiral Graf Spee. When spotted by a British aircraft ...

Why did Adolf Hitler change the Admiral Graf Spee from a gallant fighting ship into a miserable scuttleship? Naval men pondered many theories last week, as the Spee’s semi-submerged hulk still ...

For three months, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee had haunted Allied shipping lanes, sinking nearly 50,000 tons of merchant vessels without leaving a trace.

From refugees who arrived in London last week, with additional details flashed from Montevideo, came the story of what happened to 300 seamen and ship's officers taken from nine vessels captured ...

Treasure hunters recovered the more than six-foot-tall, 770-pound, swastika-bearing bronze eagle from a German cruiser scuttled after the first naval battle of World War II.