Doveton Sturdee
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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, 1st Baronet was a Royal Navy officer. After training as a torpedo officer, he commanded two different cruisers and then three different batt
Sketch of Sturdee for Naval Officers of World War I
Battle of the Falkland Islands by William Lionel Wyllie. Scharnhorst rolls over and sinks while Gneisenau continues to fight
Sturdee on board HMS Hercules commanding 4th Battle Squadron at the Battle of Jutland
Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, 1918, by Glyn Philpot
Maximilian von Spee
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Maximilian Johannes Maria Hubert Reichsgraf von Spee was a German naval officer in the Imperial German Navy, who commanded the East Asia Squadron during World War I. Spee entered the navy in 1878 and
Doveton Sturdee
…In response Sturdee, recently sacked from his job at the Admiralty, was sent to the South Atlantic to seek out the German squadron, commanded by Graf Maximilian von Spee, which had caused the damage at Coronel. On 8 December 1914, while coaling at Stanley, Sturdee encountered von Spee and the subsequent action became…
Maximilian von Spee
Spee's flagship, the armored cruiser SMS Scharnhorst
The German squadron leaving Valparaíso on 3 November after the battle
Oil painting of Scharnhorst capsizing during the battle, painted by Thomas Somerscales