Photo #: NH 51983-A
Admiral Graf Spee (German Armored Ship, 1936)
Photograph of the ship's open control position at the forward
end of the superstructure. The top of the armored conning tower,
with its rangefinder and periscopes, is in the foreground. Among
the instruments visible in the control position are target designators,
directors, rangekeepers, ship speed and course indicators, ready
lights, selector switches, telephone jack boxes, voice tubes
and howlers. The rear of the forward 28cm (11-inch) triple gun
turret is in the background.
Taken on board the ship's wreck in the River Plate, near Montevideo,
Uruguay, where she had been scuttled in December 1939.
Photographed on 2 February 1940 by Ensign Richard D. Sampson,
USN, for an intelligence report prepared by USS Helena
(CL-50) during her shakedown cruise to South America.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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