Graf Spee
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Graf Spee may refer to:
or to several German ships that were named after the admiral:
- Graf Maximilian von SpeeMaximilian von SpeeVice Admiral Maximilian Reichsgraf von Spee was a German admiral. Although he was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, the counts von Spee belonged to the prominent families of the Rhenish nobility. He joined the Kaiserliche Marine in 1878. In 1887–88 he commanded the Kamerun ports, in German West...
, German admiral in World War I
or to several German ships that were named after the admiral:
- SMS Graf Spee, incomplete Mackensen class battlecruiser of World War I, scrapped in 1923
- The German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, launched in 1934, that saw action in World War II
- The sinking of Graf Spee (the above ship) was dramatised in the 1956 film The Battle of the River PlateThe Battle of the River Plate (film)The Battle of the River Plate is a 1956 British war film by director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring John Gregson, Anthony Quayle and Peter Finch...
- The sinking of Graf Spee (the above ship) was dramatised in the 1956 film The Battle of the River Plate
- HMS Flamingo, later renamed Graf Spee, a former Royal Navy Black Swan-class sloop used as a Bundesmarine training ship