biography
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| lived:
| (1888–1959)
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| biography:
| British naval commander. As commander of the South American division, he commanded the British ships at the Battle of the River Plate, in which the German pocket battleship Graf Spee was trapped in Montevideo, and later scuttled (Dec 1939). He was made commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean fleet in 1942. |
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