In
Service: 6 January 1936 to 17 December 1939
Ordered: 23 August 1932
Builder: Reichsmarinewerft,
Wilhelmshaven
Construction No: 125
Laid down: 1 October
1932
Launched: 30 June 1934
Commissioned: 6 January 1936
Type: Pocket Battleship
Class: Deutschland
Displacement:
12,340 tons standard 16,020 tons full load
Length: 186 m
Beam:
21.65 m
Draft: 7.25 m
Propulsion: 8 × 9 cylinder double
acting two stroke MAN diesels engines producing up to 54,000 shp
Propellers:
2 screws
Speed: 29.5 knots
Range: 8,900 nautical miles at
20 knots
Crew: 1,150 men and officers
Armament: 6 ×
28 cm L/52 SK C/28
carried 630 to 720 rounds
8 × 15 cm L/55 SK C/28
carried 800 to 1200 rounds
3 × 8.8 cm L/45 SK upto 1935
6 ×
8.8 cm L/75 SK C/25 after 1935
carried 3000 rounds
6 × 10.5 cm L/65
SK C/33 after 1938
carried 2400 to 3000 rounds
4 × 3.7 cm L/83 SK
C/30
carried 8000 to 24,000 rounds
10 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30
carried
20,000 rounds
6 × 4 cm L/56 Flak 28 after 1945
10 × 3.7 cm
L/83 SK C/30
28 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30 planned
8 × 53.3 cm torpedo
tubes.
Armour Turret face 160 mm, Belt 80 mm, Deck 40 mm
Aircraft:
2 ×
Arado
Ar 196 seaplanes
Electronics: Operators: Kriegsmarine
Variants: Admiral Graf Spee Admiral
Scheer Lützow
Other: Pocket battleships Articles:
The Admiral
Graf Spee was one of the much celebrated German naval warships of World War II,
along with the Bismarck. Her size was restricted to that of a cruiser by the Treaty
of Versailles, nevertheless she was as heavily armed as a battleship due to innovative
weight saving procedures employed in her manufacture.
6 January 1936 The Admiral Graf Spee is commissioned.
26 September 1939 The Admiral Graf Spee received orders to proceed
against enemy merchant shipping.
30 September 1939 The Admiral Graf Spee sinks the British tramp
steamer Clement (5051 t).
5 October 1939 The Admiral Graf
Spee sinks the British tramp steamer Newton Beech (4651 t).
7 October
1939 The Admiral Graf Spee sinks the British steamer Ashlea (4222 t).
10 October 1939
The Admiral Graf Spee captured British liner Huntsman (8196 t).
17 October 1939 The Admiral Graf Spee sinks the British liner
Huntsman (8196 t).
22 October 1939 The Admiral Graf Spee sinks the British steamer Trevanion
(5299 t).
15 November 1939 The Admiral Graf Spee sinks the
motor tanker Africa Shell (706 t).
2 December 1939 The Admiral
Graf Spee sinks the Blue Star liner Doric Star (10086 t).
3 December
1939 The Admiral Graf Spee sinks the Tairoa (7983 t).
7 December
1939 The Admiral Graf Spee sinks the steamer Streonshalh (3895 t).
13 December 1939 The Admiral Graf Spee was engaged by a small
British naval group consisting of the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter and the light cruisers
HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles.
14 December 1939 The Admiral Graf
Spee dropped anchor at Montevideo, Uruguay.
17 December 1939
The Admiral Graf Spee put out for sea for the last time with a skeleton crew aboard
at about 1830 on 17 December. Before coming to a stop in shallow water about 6
nautical miles from port. Where she was Scuttled.
20 December 1939
Hans Langsdorff
commited suicide.
Conrad
Patzig
Takes command on 6 January 1936
Ends command on 2 October 1937
Walter
Warzecha
Takes command on 2 October 1937
Ends command on 1 November
1938
Hans
Langsdorff
Takes command on 1 November 1938
Ends command on 17 December
1939
German
Warships, 1815-1945: Major Surface Vessels.
ISBN-10: 0851775330
German
Warships, 1815-1945: U-boats and Mine Warfare Vessels.
ISBN-10: 155750301X
German warships of the Second World War.
ISBN-10: 0668040378
For a complete list of
sources 
