Ultimately, a total of 2,200 German sailors perished over the course of the clash. Three members of the Graf von Spee family—the admiral and his sons Heinrich and Otto—were among the dead.

Not a single German sailor died. The defeat at Coronel sent shock waves through the British empire and beyond. But the British response was not long in coming. The Royal Navy despatched ships from ...

More specifically, it was the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, where German sailors tried to wait out British ships off the coast of the then-neutral United States. They even reconstructed a slice of ...

Today I received the Iron Cross and I'm very proud of it." German sailors practising a drill on the deck during WW1 But the Germans did not escape completely unscathed. British soldiers manning ...

A diary handed down through three generations has helped find the wreck of a German U-boat sunk by a secret Royal Navy Q-ship in 1917. Henrietta Sandford, from Helston, shared diaries and letters ...