
Battle of the River Plate
Ep 116 – Battle of the River Plate – South America’s Only WWII Naval Battle
In this episode of Rosie the Reviewer, we discuss The Battle of the River Plate (1956), about the first British naval battle of the Second World War. We talk about the standoff between three British and New Zealand cruisers and the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, the captured merchant captain who came to respect his German captor, and how the fight ended in a tense diplomatic standoff in neutral Montevideo.