Twelve days later, Britain got her own back when the light cruisers Exeter, Ajax and Achilles, whose total broadside was outweighed by the guns of the pocket battleship, Graf Spee, attacked her off the mouth of the River Plate, hit at her for fourteen hours on the old Nelsonian Principle of "always tack," and chased her stern first into had sunk. The Altmark had been in Norwegian waters in the guise of a peaceful merchantman.
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