German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee

Admiral Graf Spee was a Deutschland-class Panzerschiff which served with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II. The vessel was named after World War I Admiral Maximilian von Spee, commander of the East Asia Squadron who fought the battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands, where he was killed in action.
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  • Type: Disaster remains
  • Description: 1934 Deutschland-class heavy cruiser
  • Also known as: “Admiral Graf Spee” and “facundo olivera”

German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee

Latitude
-34.97189° or 34° 58′ 19″ south
Longitude
-56.29751° or 56° 17′ 51″ west
Open location code
48Q52PH2+6X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6168879129
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­wreck
Wiki­data ID
Q154115
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Arabic: “أدميرال جراف شبي”
  • Arabic: “الطراد الألماني الأدميرال جراف شبي”
  • Asturian: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Basque: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Breton: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Bulgarian: “Адмирал граф Шпее”
  • Catalan: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Catalan: “Cuirassat de butxaca Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Chinese: “施佩伯爵将军号装甲舰”
  • Chinese: “施佩伯爵海军上将号重巡洋舰”
  • Croatian: “Admiral Graf von Spee”
  • Croatian: “Džepni bojni brod Admiral Graf von Spee”
  • Czech: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Danish: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Dutch: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Finnish: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Finnish: “Graf Spee”
  • French: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • French: “Admiral Graf von Spee”
  • French: “Graf Spee”
  • Galician: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Galician: “Graf Spee”
  • German: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • German: “Schlacht am Rio de la Plata”
  • German: “Schlacht am Río de la Plata”
  • Greek: “Καταδρομικό Αντμιράλ Γκραφ Σπέε”
  • Hebrew: “אדמירל גרף שפה”
  • Hebrew: “אדמירל גרף שפיי”
  • Hungarian: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Icelandic: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Icelandic: “Graf Spee”
  • Irish: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Irish: “Cúrsóir Gearmánach Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Italian: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Italian: “Graf Spee”
  • Japanese: “アトミラル・グラーフ・シュペー”
  • Japanese: “アドミラル・グラーフ・シュペー”
  • Japanese: “アドミラル・グラフ・シュペー”
  • Japanese: “アドミラル・グラフ・スペー”
  • Japanese: “グラーフ・シュペー”
  • Korean: “독일 장갑함 그라프쉬페”
  • Korean: “독일 장갑함 그라프슈페”
  • Luxembourgish: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Malay: “Kapal tempur poket Jerman Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Malay: “Kruiser Jerman Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Marathi: “ॲडमिरल ग्राफ स्पी”
  • Marathi: “अॅडमिरल ग्राफ स्पी”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “«Admiral Graf Spee» (krysser)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “«Admiral Graf Spee»”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “DKM Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Norwegian: “«Admiral Graf Spee»”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Persian: “ناو آدمیرال گراف اشپی”
  • Persian: “ناو ادمیرال گراف اشپی”
  • Piemontese: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Polish: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Portuguese: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Portuguese: “Couraçado Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Portuguese: “Couraçado Graf Spee”
  • Portuguese: “Encouraçado Graf Spee”
  • Portuguese: “Graf Spee”
  • Romanian: “Cuirasatul Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Russian: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Russian: “Адмирал граф Шпее”
  • Russian: “Граф Шпее”
  • Russian: “Тяжёлый крейсер «Адмирал граф Шпее»”
  • Serbian: “Nemački džepni bojni brod Admiral Graf Špe”
  • Serbian: “Немачки бојни брод Адмирал Граф Шпе”
  • Serbian: “Немачки џепни бојни брод Адмирал Граф Шпе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Slovak: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Slovak: “Admirál Graf Spee”
  • Slovenian: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Spanish: “Acorazado de bolsillo ‘admiral graf spee’”
  • Spanish: “Acorazado de bolsillo Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Spanish: “Acorazado de bolsillo almirante graf spee”
  • Spanish: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Spanish: “DKM Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Spanish: “Graf Spee”
  • Spanish: “Hundimiento del Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Swedish: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Swedish: “Graf Spee”
  • Turkish: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Turkish: “Alman Cep Zırhlısı Amiral Graf Spee”
  • Turkish: “DKM Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Turkish: “DKM Amiral Graf Spee”
  • Turkish: “Graf Spee”
  • Ukrainian: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • Vietnamese: “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • “Admiral Graf Spee”
  • “facundo olivera”

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