Photo #: NH 51984-A
Admiral Graf Spee (German Armored Ship, 1936)
Photograph taken in the ship's open control position at the forward
end of the superstructure, looking aft on the port side. Several
instruments are visible. In the lower left are wheels exposed
in a range keeper. The item in the center is possibly a director.
A torpedo director is in the upper left center. At left, on the
face of the 5-inch armored conning tower, is a viewing slit.
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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