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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 10571078" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ww2_2/s_w34_91219082.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> The German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, in  flames off Montevideo, Uruguay on December 19, 1939. The crew of the  Admiral Graf Spee had just engaged in the Battle of the River Plate,  after three Royal Navy cruisers hunted it down and attacked. The damage  from the attack did not sink the German battleship, but sent it to a  harbor in Montevideo for repairs. Unable to stay long enough for  repairs, and unwilling to run a waiting blockade, the crew of the  Admiral Graf Spee sailed a short distance out of port and scuttled the  ship, seen here shortly before it sank. </blockquote>

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