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 | | Patrolling South America at that time was Admiral Cradock's West Indies Squadron, which consisted of two armoured cruisers, HMS Good Hope (Cradock's flagship) and HMS Monmouth, the modern light cruiser HMS Glasgow, and a converted ex-liner, HMS Otranto. |
 | | Cradock's fleet was by no means modern or particularly strong, and certainly ill-matched when set against Spee's formidable force of five vessels, led by the armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau plus a further three light cruisers, all modern, efficient ships. |
 | | Cradock had received word, again via intercepted radio signal on 31 October that SMS Leipzig, the slowest light cruiser in Spee's fleet, was in the area. |
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