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The Deutschland Admiral Scheer and Admiral Graf Spee were revolutionary warships when they first appeared in the 1930s and proved formidable opponents in World War IIThis reference book a companion to Battleships of the Bismarck Class and Battleships of the Scharnhorst Class traces the development of the class and charts its wartime career Detailed statistical information is included with the career history of each vessel supplemented by extracts from the ships logs and official battle reports The text is supported by illustrations throughout technical plans camouflage drawings and hundreds of photographs
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The Deutschland Admiral Scheer and Admiral Graf Spee were revolutionary warships when they first appeared in the 1930s and proved formidable opponents in World War IIThis reference book a companion to Battleships of the Bismarck Class and Battleships of the Scharnhorst Class traces the development of the class and charts its wartime career Detailed statistical information is included with the career history of each vessel supplemented by extracts from the ships logs and official battle reports The text is supported by illustrations throughout technical plans camouflage drawings and hundreds of photographs
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Supported by official documents personal accounts official drawings and specially commissioned artwork this volume is an enlightening history of the Deutschland to Osfriesland classes Detailing the last of the predreadnaught battleship classes this book goes on to explain the revolutionary developments that took place within the German Imperial Navy as they readied themselves for war This included creating vessels with vast increases in size and armament This account of design and technology is supplemented by individual ship histories detailing combat experience complete with firsthand accounts The specially commissioned artwork also brings this history to life with recreations of the battleship Pommern fighting at Jutland and ships of the Osfriesland class destroying HMS Black Prince in a dramatic nighttime engagement
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The Deutschlandclass ships were the first heavy vessels of the German Navy after the First World War In Germany they were classified as Panzerschiffe but in other countries the term pocket battleships was very popular The third and last vessel of this class was Admiral Graf Spee She was laid down on 1 October 1932 launched on 30 June 1934 and commissioned on 6 January 1936 During the Spanish Civil War the ship patrolled coastal waters of this country Before the outbreak of the Second World War on 21 August 1939 the ship steamed out for the Atlantic From 26 September she was fighting Allied shipping sinking nine British vessels On the morning of 13 December Graf Spee encountered a group of Allied warships the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter and light cruisers HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles near South American coast The gun battle that ensued went to the history as the Battle of the River Plate Both the Exeter and her German enemy were damaged during the course of the engagement The commander of Graf Spee Kapitän zur See Hans Langsdorff decided to break off the battle and enter the nearby port of Montevideo in Uruguay According to the international law the German corsair could not stay in a neutral port longer than 72 hours Convinced that massive British forces were concentrating in the vicinity and hence the escape was impossible Langsdorf decided to save the crew and scuttle the ship On 17 December Admiral Graf Spee steamed to the roadstead and there the explosive charges were fired The German ship sunk in shallow waters and her commander shot himself three days later in a hotel in Buenos Aires The wreckage was penetrated even during the war by British divers in order to recover more valuable items and obtain information about German technology In the postwar years many single parts of the ship were recovered
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The ShipCraft series provides indepth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types Lavishly illustrated each book takes the modeler through a brief history of the subject class using scale plans to highlight differences between sisterships and changes in their appearance over their careers then moves to an extensive photographic survey of either a highquality model or a surviving example of the ship Hints on building the model and on modifying and improving the basic kit are followed by a section on paint schemes and camouflage featuring numerous color profiles and highlydetailed line drawings The strengths and weaknesses of available kits of the ships are reviewed and the book concludes with a section on research references books monographs largescale plans and relevant websites For the first volume in this series the author has chosen the German pocket battleships of WW2 the bestknown of which was the Graf Spee of Battle of the River Plate fame This innovative and infamous class of surface raiders has long been a popular subject for ship modelers many manufacturers producing kits of the Graf Spee and the rather different Admiral Scheer and Lutzow This book will show ship modelers how to turn their kits into something really special but its unparalleled level of visual information will also appeal to the more general warship enthusiast
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After the end of World War I the German Navy came up with the concept of the Panzerschiffe or Pocket Battleship as a method of circumventing treaty limitations on the size and types of ship Germany was permitted to build New more modern production methods where welded construction prevailed over the older riveting process were combined with the development of modern engines capable of fast speeds and a very powerful armament far superior to that on any enemy Cruisers This book covers these three sister ships the Deutschland the Admiral Graf Spee and the Admiral Scheer which formed the core of the Kriegsmarines fighting power at the start of World War II
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The ShipCraft series provides indepth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types Lavishly illustrated each book takes the modeler through a brief history of the subject class using scale plans to highlight differences between sisterships and changes in their appearance over their careers then moves to an extensive photographic survey of either a highquality model or a surviving example of the ship Hints on building the model and on modifying and improving the basic kit are followed by a section on paint schemes and camouflage featuring numerous color profiles and highlydetailed line drawings The strengths and weaknesses of available kits of the ships are reviewed and the book concludes with a section on research references books monographs largescale plans and relevant websites For the first volume in this series the author has chosen the German pocket battleships of WW2 the bestknown of which was the Graf Spee of Battle of the River Plate fame This innovative and infamous class of surface raiders has long been a popular subject for ship modelers many manufacturers producing kits of the Graf Spee and the rather different Admiral Scheer and Lutzow This book will show ship modelers how to turn their kits into something really special but its unparalleled level of visual information will also appeal to the more general warship enthusiast
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For three decades the Windrush was the maritime Zelig of the 20th century Designed in 1930 in the Hamburg boatyard of a Jewish shipbuilder to ferry Germans to a new life in South America it wasnt long before Goebbels requisitioned her She became a Nazi troop carrier a support vessel for the pocket battleship Tirpitznbspand a prison ship transporting Jews to Auschwitz Captured by the Britishnbspin 1945 and renamed the SS Empire Windrush she then spent years evacuating displaced service people and in her famous single voyage from the Caribbean she brought the first wave of black migrants to Britain This vivid biographynbspcombines the memories of people who were there with a gripping account of an extraordinary merchant ship at the end of empires
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After recounting his early days as a naval cadet including a voyage to the Far East aboard the cruiser Köln and as the navigatorobserver of the floatplane carried by the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer during the Spanish Civil War the author describes his flying training as a Stuka pilotThe authors naval divebomber Gruppe was incorporated into the Luftwaffe upon the outbreak of war What follows is a fascinating Stuka pilotseyeview of some of the most famous and historic battles and campaigns of the early war years the Blitzkrieg in France the Dunkirk Evacuation the Battle of Britain the bombing of Malta North Africa Tobruk Crete and finally the invasion of the Soviet UnionThe author also takes the reader behind the scenes into the daytoday life of his unit and brings the members of his Gruppe to vivid life describing their offduty antics and mourning their loss in action The story ends when he himself is shot down in flames by a Soviet fighter and severely burned He was to spend the remainder of the war in various staff appointments
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In November of 1940 the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer attacked British Convoy HX84 The merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay a converted passenger liner that was the convoys only escortarmed only with antique 6inch gunscharged the Nazi raider While the Jervis Bay did not stand a chance of surviving the battle her crews fatalistic bravery inspired awe in all who witnessed the fight Watson recounts how the Scheers 11inch guns turned the ship into a burning hulk in twentytwo minutes but most of the convoy escapedIn November of 1940 the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer attacked British Convoy HX84 The Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Jervis Bay the only escort and mounting antique 6inch guns charged the Nazi raider While the Jervis Bay did not stand a chance of surviving the battle her crews fatalistic bravery inspired awe in all who witnessed the fight Watson describes how the Scheers 11inch guns turned the converted passenger liner into a burning hulk in twentytwo minutes but most of the convoy escapedHow did this confrontation come to pass Both the necessity of arming a passenger liner and pretending it was a warship and the building of the Admiral Scheer and her sister ships for the express purpose of commerce raiding find their roots in the events political decisions rearmament polices war plans naval traditions and blunders that arose in prewar Britain and Germany But this event holds a significance beyond the battle itself The sinking of the Jervis Bay symbolizes the end of an era in naval warfare The Armed Merchant Cruisers of the Second World War inherited a long sometimes noble and sometimes ignoble history Long employed in blockade or patrol duty armed merchant cruisers ventured out for the first time to escort convoys a defensive duty for which they were eminently unsuited and for which the Jervis Bay paid a fearful price
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The Battle of the River Plate was the first major naval confrontation of the Second World War and it is one of the most famous The dramatic sea fight between the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and the British cruisers Exeter Ajax and Achilles off the coast of South America caught the imagination in December 1939 Over the last 60 years the episode has come to be seen as one of the classics of naval warfare Yet the accepted interpretation of events has perhaps been taken for granted and is ripe for reassessment and that is one of the aims of Richard Woodmans enthralling new studyThis author has made it all so very riveting it really is a book which is hard to put down until finished Royal Geographical SocietyGraphic thought provoking highly recommended Britain at War
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On 5 November 1940 the eastbound convoy HX 84 of thirtyseven merchant ships escorted by the armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay was attacked in midAtlantic by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer The Jervis Bay commanded by Captain Edward Fegen charged at the enemy Hopelessly outgunned she was blown out of the water by the Scheers 11inch gunsMeanwhile led by HX 84s commodore ship the Cardiff tramp Cornish City the merchantmen scattered under the cover of a smoke screen were picked off one by one by the radarequipped Admiral ScheerCaptain Hugh Pettigrew commanding the highly armed Canadian Pacific cargo liner Beaverford began a desperate game of hide and seek with the Scheer which continued until Beaverford was sunk with no survivors Thanks to this sacrifice incredibly only four other merchantmen were sunkLater the neutral flag Swedish freighter Stureholm commanded by Captain Olander picked up survivors from the Jervis Bay Without this brave and dangerous gesture no one would have lived to tell the tale of the death throes of the Jervis Bay whose Captain was awarded the VCSadly the history books only mention the Beaverford and the Stureholm in passing This thrilling book puts the record straight
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A distinguished British maritime writer Woodman offers a compelling reassessment of the British and German planning that led to the first and one of the most famous naval battles of World War II The dramatic sea fight between the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and the British cruisers Exeter Ajax and Achilles off the coast of South America in December 1939 is seen as one of the classics of naval warfare Woodman argues that the longaccepted interpretation of events is ripe for closer scrutiny and reevaluation Using eyewitness accounts he graphically reconstructs the daylong battle and pursuit and draws penetrating portraits of the battles opposing commanders This important new work is certain to become the subject of close study and debate
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This compelling new study of the Battle of the River Plate focuses on Hans Langsdorff the commander of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee Written from the German commanders point of view Miller provides a gripping narrative of his mission to prey on merchant shipping Operating alone and thousands of miles away from home with no prospect of support Langsdorff had to grapple with the enormous burden of a lone command This fascinating reexamination of his actions and his leadership confirms Langsdorff s reputation as one of the most admired officers of the Kriegsmarine who may have placed too much trust in the flawed design of the Graf Spee as a pocket battleship
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That an enemy force of at least one pocket battleship one heavy cruiser and six destroyers with all the advantage of surprise and concentration should be held off for four hours by five destroyers and driven from the area by two sixinch cruisers without any loss to the convoy is most creditable and satisfactory Thus was the opinion of the CommanderinChief Home Fleet Admiral Tovey of the action that has become known as the battle of the Barents Sea It was a naval engagement that had far reaching consequences and resulted in many capital ships of the Kriegsmarine being decommissioned for the rest of World War II The Arctic convoys that sailed through the cold malevolent waters of the Barents Sea ran the gauntlet of German air and sea attack as they struggled to transport vital supplies to Britains Russian allies Convoy JW51B sailed in December 1942 with a small escort of five destroyers and a reserve of two light cruisers shadowed the main convoy at a distance of seventy miles The convoy was attacked on 31 December by a powerful German force that included the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper the pocket battleship Lutzow and six destroyers The ensuing engagement proved the worth of the British destroyers and the bravery of the men who sailed in them
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