In the summer of 1936, following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, she deployed to the Atlantic to participate in non-intervention patrols off the Republican-held coast of Spain. A fantastic build of the Kriegsmarine Pocket Battleship The Admiral Graf Spee by modelling friend Andrey Bulatsen an award winning build with plenty of Aftermarket added to it.Īdmiral Graf Spee a Deutschland-class "Panzerschiff" (armored ship), nicknamed a "pocket battleship" by the British, which served with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II. The vessel was named after World War I Admiral Maximilian von Spee, commander of the East Asia Squadron who fought the battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands, where he was killed in action.Īfter joining the fleet, Admiral Graf Spee became the flagship of the German Navy.
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