The heavy cruiser "Exeter" returning to Plymouth, February 17, 1940
The British heavy cruiser "Exeter" returning to Plymouth, February 17, 1940, after the victorious battle of Rio de la Plata (December 13, 1940), which ended with the scuttling of the pocket battleship "Admiral Graf Spee", in which it participated alongside the cruisers "Ajax" and "Achilles". The "Exeter" would be sunk by the Japanese on March 1st, 1942, after the battle of the Java Sea.
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