Picture No | 10652342 |
Date | December 1939 |
Description | Defeat of the Graf Spee by G. H. Davis |
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The fight with the Admiral Graf Spee: factors in a classic example of naval battle tactics pictorially explained. Elements that played a part in the defeat of the ship by three British cruisers, two of them small. manoeuvres employed by light vessels in out-fighting a superior one; the use of smoke screens at sea; comparisons of the relative strength of the combatants; and other factors in the action.
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Source | Illustration by George Horace Davis in ‘The Illustrated London News’, 23 December 1939, pp930-1 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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