It was a decisive Japanese victory, and HMS Exeter was attempting ... was the first major naval battle in World War II. The German pocket battleship (heavy cruiser) Admiral Graf Spee had been ...

Worse has been the fate of the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter, which famously confronted the doomed Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Plate ‘The UK Government absolutely condemns the unauthorized ...

A force including the American and British heavy cruisers USS Houston and HMS Exeter and the Australian and Dutch light cruisers HMAS Perth, HMNS De Ruyter and HMNS Java set out to destroy the ...

Commodore Henry Harwood of Hunting Group G guessed where the German ship was headed, closing in with heavy cruiser HMS Exeter and ... Allied victory of World War II, so the Graf Spee is also ...