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| | Battle of the River Plate - meaning of word |
 | | A second County class cruiser, HMS Cumberland (C57) (10,000 tons, eight 8-inch (203 mm) guns) was self-refitting in the Falkland Islands at the time, though available at short notice. |
 | | British efforts were made to feed false Military espionage to the Germans that an overwhelming British force was being assembled, including the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (91) and the battlecruiser HMS Renown (1916), when in fact only the heavy cruiser HMS Cumberland (C57) was nearby. |
 | | Prisoners taken from merchant ships by ''Admiral Graf Spee'' who had been transferred to her supply ship ''Altmark'' were freed by a boarding party from the British destroyer HMS Cossack (F03), called the Altmark Incident (February 16, 1940) — whilst in Jøssingfjord, in then neutral Norway waters. |
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