KMS Admiral Graf Spee/Definition

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A German "pocket battleship", optimized for commerce raiding and constructed within treaty limits, eventually scuttled in the neutral harbor of Montevideo, Uruguay after fighting three British Commonwealth cruisers in the Battle of the River Plate