Further information - Battle of the River Plate

This web feature was written by Ian McGibbon and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team. 

Related booklet

The text and some of the images from this web feature have been made into a booklet for the naval museum in Montevideo. You can download this as a pdf document in English and Spanish:

• Battle of the River Plate – the New Zealand story
• La batalla del Río de la Plata – la historia neocelandesa

Links

• Achilles photograph album (Royal New Zealand Navy Museum)
• Achilles at the River Plate (NZETC)
• The Battle of the River Plate: Chapter 4 of Royal New Zealand Navy official history (NZETC)
• Admiral Graf Spee images - Montevideo, scuttling and wreck (Classic Warships)
• Video interview with Eddie Telford, signalman on the Achilles (Ziln)

Books

• Ian McGibbon, New Zealand and the Second World War, Hodder Moa Beckett, Auckland, 2003
• S.D. Waters, Achilles at the River Plate, War History Branch, Wellington, 1948
• S.D. Waters, Royal New Zealand Navy, War History Branch, Wellington, 1956