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Memorial service at wreck of River Plate Battle HMS Exeter
The German pocket battleship (heavy cruiser ... off the coast of Uruguay by three smaller Royal Navy cruisers, HMS Exeter; HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles, which was part of the RN New Zealand Division.
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Battleship Graf Spee Nazi eagle must be sold, orders Uruguayan court
when HMS Ajax, HMS Exeter and HMS Achilles (New Zealand) finally caught the Graf von Spee, which then decided to scuttle the pocket battleship.
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Royal Navy renames sub HMS Agincourt 'to avoid annoying the French'
A previous HMS Achilles, a Leander Class cruiser, was part of a Royal Navy squadron which fought the German pocket battleship Graf ... was originally designated Ajax but later had its name changed ...
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Toronto suburb to rename street named after Nazi naval officer
The town is named after a British ship, the HMS Ajax, that won a 1939 battle against a ship commanded by Hans Langsdorff, a Nazi officer. (JTA) — A suburb of Toronto will rename a street named ...
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78 years ago, the British won a surprise victory over Nazi Germany in the first major naval battle of World War II
Commodore Henry Harwood of Hunting Group G guessed where the German ship was headed, closing in with heavy cruiser HMS Exeter and light cruisers HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles on December 13.