Photo #: NH 51985-A
Admiral Graf Spee (German Armored Ship, 1936)
Photograph of the interior of the ship's navigation bridge, in
the forward superstructure tower, looking to port. Items visible
in the fire damaged space include gas mask canisters, a bent
voice tube and, in the upper left, the base of the port bridge
pelorus.
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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