What the records say
- When
- 13 Dec 1939
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 34.00° S, 49.00° W
- Description
- 1939 first naval battle of the Second World War
- Naval
- yes
- War
- World War II
6 sources record it
- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWII – Battle of the River Plate: The German heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee is trapped by cruisers Ajax 22, HMNZS Achilles”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “bataille du Rio de la Plata”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “у побережья Уругвая произошёл морской бой между британскими крейсерами и немецким карманным линкором «Адмирал Граф Шпее»”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en el estuario del Río de la Plata, se da comienzo a la Batalla del Río de la Plata”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ラプラタ沖海戦”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page