Revell German Pocket Battleship Graf Spree 1/720 Scale

Admiral Graf Spee was a panzerschiff, which served with the German Kriegsmarine before and during the early stages of World War II. In view of her comparatively heavy artillery of 28 cm (11 inch) guns, she and her two sisters, Deutschland (later renamed Lützow) and Admiral Scheer, were frequently referred to as pocket battleships by the British. The Admiral Graf Spee is considered one of the most famous German warships, along with the Bismarck. A year after the Graf Spee's loss, her sisters were reclassified as heavy cruisers.

Admiral Graf Spee was launched in 1934 and named after the World War I Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee who died, along with two of his sons, in the first Battle of the Falkland Islands on 8 December 1914. She was the second vessel to be named after him, the first being the uncompleted World War I German battlecruiser SMS Graf Spee.