1939 Admiral Graf Spee - Simon AtackThe “pocket-battleship” Graf Spee catches the flood

1939 Admiral Graf Spee - Simon Atack

The “pocket-battleship” Graf Spee catches the flood tide, making speed through a choppy cross-current as she leaves the German naval port of Wilhelmshaven for final trials a few weeks before the outbreak of war on 3rd September, 1939. Under her Captain, Hans Langsdorf, she will soon be on station in the South Atlantic in readiness …