Which German battleship was scuttled at the River Plate in 1939
The Battle of the River Plate (film) The Battle of the River Plate (film) The Battle of the River Plate (a.k.a. Pursuit of the Graf Spee in the United States) is a 1956 British war film in Technicolor and VistaVision by the writer-director-producer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The film stars John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, and Peter Finch. It was distributed worldwide by Rank Film Distributors Ltd. The film's storyline concerns the Battle of the River Plate, an early World War II naval battle in 1939 between a Royal Navy force of three cruisers and the German pocket battleship "Admiral Graf Spee". In the early
German battleship Scharnhorst German battleship Scharnhorst Scharnhorst was a German capital ship, alternatively described as a battleship or battlecruiser, of Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine". She was the lead ship of her class, which included one other ship, . The ship was built at the "Kriegsmarinewerft" dockyard in Wilhelmshaven; she was laid down on 15 June 1935 and launched a year and four months later on 3 October 1936. Completed in January 1939, the ship was armed with a main battery of nine 28 cm (11 in) C/34 guns in three triple turrets. Plans to replace these weapons with six 38 cm (15 in) SK