Warships and Ships at war

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On the day Britain and France declared war on Germany, two sister pocket-battleships, the Deutschland and the Graf Spree were poised ready to disrupt and desteoy Allied merchant shipping in the Atlantic.Over the following months , the Graf Spee caused sufficient havoc in the South Atlantic to merit pursuit by three British Naval Raider Hunting Groups. She was finally intrecepted off the estuary of the river Plate on 13th of December by the Exeter, A Cchilles and Ajax and was forced into the Uruguayan harbour of Montevideo, Captain Langsdorff,aware of the build-up of British reinforcements,was forced to scuttle the battleship on the FUHRER'S orders
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