💭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

514K views · 3.1K reactions | The Sinking of HMS Antelope (F170)  Antelope took part in the Falklands War, arriving in the area of operations on 21 May 1982. Two days later, while on air defence duty at the entrance to San Carlos Water, protecting the beachhead established two days before, she came under attack by four Argentine A-4B Skyhawks of Grupo 5. | The British Falkland Islands & British Military | Facebook

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