An item dated Berlin, Germany 27th referred to a official statement that on 30th June the third 10.000 tons German pocket battleship was to be launched. The new building was possible under the Treaty of Versailles allowing the replacement of 4 aged battleships by new ships. (1)
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1. This must be the Admiral Graf Spee. Of the Deutschland-class armoured ships well known as pocket battleships later classified as heavy cruisers. Laid down by Reichsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven, Germany on 1 October 1932, launched on 30 June 1934, commissioned on 6 January 1936, after the Battle of the River Plata with British/New Zealand cruisers on 13 December, scuttled by her own crew in the harbour of Montevideo, Uruguay on 17 December 1939.
