Spee
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The future of a bronze eagle which once adorned the Nazi battleship Admiral Graf Spee remains uncertain after plans to melt it down were scrapped.
From BBC
Treasure hunters raised the eagle in 2006 off the coast of Uruguay, where the Graf Spee had been scuttled in 1939 to stop it falling into enemy hands.
From BBC
It had been lying on the bottom of the River Plate since 1939, when the captain of the Admiral Graf Spee had scuttled her soon after the first major naval battle of the Second World War.
From BBC
The Graf Spee had been a great threat to the Allied forces in WWII, having sunk eight merchant ships between the outbreak of war in September 1939 and the end of that year.
From BBC
Other pieces from the Admiral Graf Spee wreck — including an apparatus used to measure distances and the warship’s anchor, both of which are utilitarian Navy artifacts with no Nazi iconography — are now on display in public spaces in Montevideo.
From New York Times
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