Graf Spee emerges from its River Plate grave By Seamus Mirodan in Buenos Aires (Filed: 27/02/2004) More than 64 years after the Graf Spee's captain scuttled his pocket battleship off Uruguay to stop it falling into British hands, divers have raised part of the vessel. A part of the Graf Spee is raised After weeks of failed attempts a 27-ton section of the command tower, including the first embryonic radar antenna installed on a warship, was brought to the surface of the River Plate estuary using a floating crane. Germany's Graf Spee, equipped with 11-inch guns and a prototype diesel...
