The future of a bronze eagle which once adorned the Nazi-era battleship Admiral Graf Spee remains uncertain after plans to melt it down were scrapped. Treasure hunters raised the eagle in 2006 off ...

For three months, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee had haunted Allied shipping lanes, sinking nearly 50,000 tons of merchant vessels without leaving a trace.

The eagle with a swastika under its talons was part of the stern of the German battleship Admiral Graf Spee that sank off Uruguay's coast at the outset of World War II.

Salvage experts recovered a massive bronze eagle emblem on Friday from the wreckage of a Nazi battleship scuttled off the coast of Uruguay at the outset of World War II. The ship — the Graf Spee ...

The first naval battle of World War II didn’t take place in Europe, but in the South Atlantic, near Argentina and Uruguay. On December 13, 1939, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee ...

The Graf Spee was one of three pocket battleships deployed by the Germans early during World War II. Pocket battleships actually were swift, heavily armed cruisers.

The future of a bronze eagle which once adorned the Nazi-era battleship Admiral Graf Spee remains uncertain after plans to melt it down were scrapped. Treasure hunters raised the eagle in 2006 off ...