TRUMPETER 1/350 SCALE MODEL SHIP KIT - 05316 - German Pocket Battleship (Panzer Schiff) Admiral Graf Spee
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1/350 Scale Plastic Model kit
German Pocket battleship (Panzer Schiff) Admiral Graf Spee
WW2 1939
Admiral Graf Spee, commissioned in 1936, was
faster than a battleship and more powerful than a cruiser. She was also
the first German warship to be fitted with search radar. Her speed could
reach up to 28.5 knots and main battery consisted of six 280mm SK C/28
naval rifles that mounted in two triple-turrets. She made five
deployments to Spanish water during the time of the Spanish Civil War.
When the WW? broke out, she began her cruise as a raider in the South
Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. Her orders were to sink British merchant
ships but to avoid combat with superior enemy forces, thus threatening
vital Allied supply lines and drawing British naval units off their
stations in other parts of the world. Admiral Graf Spee sank nine Allied
merchant ships (totalling 50,089 tons) during the war. she was
deliberately scuttled in 1939 soon after the Battle of the River Plate.
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