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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.

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Image posted 18 August 2006