A picture taken from the air showing the skeleton crew, in lifeboats (on the extreme left), which sailed the Graf Spee to the outer harbour at Montevideo, abandoning the ship as final preparations were made to blow her up. The German tanker Tacoma is in the background waiting to pick them up.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 16, 19 January 1940, Page 8
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52A picture taken from the air showing the skeleton crew, in lifeboats (on the extreme left), which sailed the Graf Spee to the outer harbour at Montevideo, abandoning the ship as final preparations were made to blow her up. The German tanker Tacoma is in the background waiting to pick them up. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 16, 19 January 1940, Page 8
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