A WWII battleship sunk in Uruguay was named for this German graf (5)(5) Who lost the WWI Battle of the Falklands & drowned
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SMS Nrnberg, one of the German ships sunk at the Battle of the ...  SMS Nrnberg, one of the German ships sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands 8th ... HMS Revenge, namesake of her battleship class, WWI dazzle paint job. ... She sank light cruiser SMS Leipzig, thus avenging Monmouth herself (lost ...... German battleship Scharnhorst in 1943) were the best known of the 5 ship class...
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SMS Nrnberg, one of the German ships sunk at the Battle of the ...  SMS Leipzig, German light cruiser at the Battle of the Falkland Islands on 8th ..... She sank light cruiser SMS Leipzig, thus avenging Monmouth herself (lost shortly ..... Graf Spee was scuttled off Uruguay in December that year after the Battle of the .... German battleship Scharnhorst in 1943) were the best known of the 5 ship...
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World War II: Battle of the River Plate - Military History - About.com  Fighting off the estuary of the River Plate, Admiral Graf Spee inflicted heavy damage on the British but was forced to seek a harbor in neutral Uruguay. ... World War I: Battle of the Falkland Islands. 4. World War I: Vice Admiral Maximilian 5 ... With World War II looming, the German Deutschland-class cruiser Admiral Graf...
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German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee - Wikipedia  Admiral Graf Spee was a Deutschland-class "Panzerschiff" (armored ship), nicknamed a "pocket battleship" by the British, which served with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II. ... Between September and December 1939, the ship sank nine ships totaling ... 4 References; 5 Also see; 6 Further reading...
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German Battleship SMS Kaiser. Kaiser fought in the 3rd Battle ...  Kaiser fought in the 3rd Battle Squadron at the Battle of Jutland 31st May 1916 ... Ships, Ww1 Ships, Battle Ships, Jutland 31St, Jutland Sea, 3Rd Battle ..... of German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee off Montevideo (Uruguay) in the first .... The entire 5 ship class served on into WW2 (Royal Oak being sunk in 1939), but...
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British Ships sunk and damaged - Falklands War 1982  Jun 12, 1982 ... HMS SHEFFIELD - mortally damaged south east of Falklands by Exocet missile fired by Super Etendard of CANA 2 Esc. Burnt out and sank in...
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Lusitania sinks - May 07, 1915 - HISTORY.com  On the afternoon of May 7, 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. Within 20...
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Today in History - AccuWeather.com Forums  Sep 1, 2011 ... 1945 - Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 9/2 in Japan) ..... 1862 - Isaac Ingalls Stevens, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 44 .... All crew lost. ...... 1995 - 109th US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles ...... 1916 - World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace...
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Lusitania - World War I - HISTORY.com  On May 7, 1915, less than a year after World War I (1914-18) erupted across ... a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner en ... pass before the United States formally entered World War I, but the sinking of...
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Why doesn't a war ship sink at sea? - Quora  Sep 4, 2015 ... Warships do sink at sea. In the Falkland Islands conflict between Great Britain and ... and Argentina, several ships were sunk, by torpedoes (the cruiser Belgrano), ... ... Can hitting an iceberg really sink a massive iron ship like the Titanic? ... A famous slogan During World War II was "loose lips sink ships.
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The Whale has Wings | Page 70 | Alternate History Discussion  Feb 14, 2012 ... Akron and Macon were frankly named after cities, the latter to flatter ... As a natural area of the United States, USN naming conventions during WW2 would class ... Again, naval heroes had destroyers named after them, and all of these ... the mid-1930s, while the USS Dewey (DD-349) was a Farragut-class...
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Sinking of the RMS Lusitania - Wikipedia  The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine ... The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 and sank in 18 minutes. .... She departed Pier 54 in New York on 1 May 1915 on her return trip to Liverpool...
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British vets mark a key fight at sea - tribunedigital-chicagotribune  May 23, 2001 ... Lone German also recalls sinking of Bismarck in 1941 ... anniversary of the May 27, 1941, sinking of the mighty battleship Bismarck, the pride of...
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German submarine sinks Lusitania - May 07, 1915 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, German submarine sinks Lusitania on May 07, 1915. ... May 7, 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by ... that Americans traveling on British or Allied ships in war zones did so at their own risk. ... the sinking of the Lusitania had convinced him that the United States could...
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Lusitania sinks - May 07, 1915 - HISTORY.com  On the afternoon of May 7, 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. Within 20 minutes, the vessel sank into the Celtic Sea. Of 1,959 passengers and crew, 1,198 people were drowned, including 128 Americans.
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USS Dewey History - US Navy Hosting  DDG 105 is the third ship to be named after Admiral Dewey. ... Commodore George Dewey achieved a crushing naval victory over the Spanish fleet in the waters ... he was to take his squadron and destroy the Spanish ships in Philippine waters. ... If the Americans bypassed Subic and anchored in Manila Bay, it was thought,...
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Trenches on the Web - Special: Latin America in World War I  When World War I began, the republics of Latin America as well as the United States ... The Germans and the Allies violated neutral rights - Panama complained that ... Horn the two met in the battle of the Falkland Islands and only the Dresden escaped; ... After the United States declared war on Germany, Mexican President...
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3. Escalation - The U-boat War in World War One (WWI ... - Uboat.net  New Year's Day 1915 was welcomed by SM U 24 (Kptlt. Rudolf Schneider) with ... The famous first "all-big-gun" battleship HMS Dreadnought, which never fired a ... on 7th May 1915, when SM U 20 (Kptlt. Walther Schwieger) fired one torpedo ... by coal dust) and sank within 18 mins with the loss of nearly 1,200 lives, among...
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May 27, 1941: Sink the Bismarck! | WIRED  May 27, 2009 ... 1941: The German battleship Bismarck, her steering gear knocked ... finally cornered and sunk by ships and planes from the Royal Navy, ... Norway on May 21 for Operation Rheinbung, its first sortie against enemy merchant shipping. ... badly damaged her before the British ship threw up a smoke screen...
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British vets mark a key fight at sea - tribunedigital-chicagotribune  May 23, 2001 ... Lone German also recalls sinking of Bismarck in 1941 ... airmen, along with one elderly German who had fought against them. ... of the May 27, 1941, sinking of the mighty battleship Bismarck, the pride of Adolf ... But six British ships closed in and sent the Bismarck to the bottom of the Atlantic on May 27.
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American entry into World War I - Wikipedia  On May 7, Germany torpedoed the British passenger liner RMS Lusitania, sinking her. This act of aggression caused the loss of 1,198 civilian lives, including...