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Old 12-01-2018, 04:31 PM
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The Battle of the River Plate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ba...lm)#Ships_used

HMNZS Achilles played herself.

My 1st Supervisor at work, his brother-in-law was on the Achilles during the battle- I asked if he was scared (hey, I was only 18 at the time- and the Battle of the River Plate is a big thing in New Zealand with our ship the HMNZ Achilles being in the battle). He said during the battle -no, said he was deep in the engine room & all he heard during the hour-long battle was the rumble of guns!

Said he was sh*t scared after the battle when he came on deck & saw the damage & the real possibility that the Graf Spee would resume the battle against them, which he said that they would have had 'no chance' of surviving, with just them & HMS Ajax able to fight.
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