German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee

Local nameAncla de Graf Spee
LocationCiudad Vieja, Montevideo, Uruguay

Admiral Graf Spee was a Deutschland-class "Panzerschiff", nicknamed a "pocket battleship" by the British, which served with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II. The vessel was named after World War I Admiral Maximilian von Spee, commander of the East Asia Squadron who fought the battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands, where he was killed in action. She was laid down at the Reichsmarinewerft shipyard in Wilhelmshaven in October 1932 and completed by January 1936.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cruiser_Admiral_Graf_Spee

Coordinates -34°54'12.537" N -56°12'41.887" E

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