💭Did you know ...the Battle of the River Plate was the first major naval clash of World War II, and it ended without a clear battlefield winner? On December 13, 1939, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee faced three Allied cruisers off South America, HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax, and HMNZS Achilles. Though outgunned, the Allied force damaged Graf Spee’s fuel system badly enough to decide her fate. Trapped by diplomacy and British deception in Montevideo, the German captain chose to scuttle hi

The Royal Navy Cruiser HMS Exeter returns home to Devonport, Plymouth, from the Battle of the River Plate (1940) ~ Pathe News HMS Exeter was the second and last York-class heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the late 1920s. Aside from a temporary deployment with the Mediterranean Fleet during the Abyssinia Crisis of 1935–36, she spent the bulk of the 1930s assigned to the Atlantic Fleet or the North America and West Indies Station. When World War II began in September 1939, the ship wa

Scharnhorst was one of the most dangerous German warships of the Second World War, but what were the events that led to its downfall? Discover the role HMS Belfast played in the Battle of North Cape in the latest episode of IWM Stories, available on YouTube: bit.ly/2SBPLHp | Imperial War Museum London

HMS Coventry was attacked by Argentinian jets during the Falklands War, killing 19 people. Chris Howe was 25 years old at the time and serving as Petty Officer onboard the Royal Navy ship. | Forces News