Graf Spee naval art prints by Ivan Berryman, depicting
the German navy battleship. WW2 German navy prints by Ivan
Berryman showing the German battleship Graf Spee. This gallery
includes all prints of KMS Graf Spee by Ivan Berryman, as well as all
original paintings.
Built at Wilhelmshaven Navy Yard and
launched 30th June 1934 and commissioned 6th January 1936, from the
outset of The second World war, she quickly operated as a commerce
raider sinking a total of 50,089 tons of shipping. After an
engagement against three British Cruisers, HMS Ajax, Exeter and
Achilles, she went to Rio De Janeiro, where after hearing that a larger
British naval force was waiting for her to depart, she was Scuttled in
the Rio de la Plata estuary on the 17th December 1939, This superior
British Force never existed, and has been invented by British
Intelligence and had bluffed the Graf Spee captain. After the loss of
the Graf Spee, Hitler ordered that the Cruiser Deutschland should be
renamed Lutzow incase the ship carrying the name of Germany should
be sunk