Photo #: NH 51986-A Admiral Graf Spee (German Armored Ship, 1936) Photograph of a shell hole in the ship's forward superstructure tower, made by an eight-inch shell fired by the British heavy cruser Exeter. The hole was described as "large enough to crawl through". 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. See Photo # NH 51986 for the entire page on which this photograph was mounted. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 580 pixels |
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Image posted 20 August 2006