It was a decisive Japanese victory, and HMS Exeter was attempting ... was the first major naval battle in World War II. The German pocket battleship (heavy cruiser) Admiral Graf Spee had been ...

Worse has been the fate of the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter, which famously confronted the doomed Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Plate ‘The UK Government absolutely condemns the unauthorized ...

In this Nazi propaganda broadcast, Lord Haw-Haw reports that British cruiser HMS Exeter has "run aground" off the Falklands after an encounter with German battleship Graf Spee in the coastal ...