Next month November is the 94 aniversary of the navy battle of Coronel with 2 british warships sunken and 1.654 mariner all british dead by german forces.Graf Spee was the chief of german fleet and Admiral C.Cradock the british comander.After a month of this Graf Spee fleet was destruied en falkand island confrontation .It was the first time after 1812 a lost sea battle for England Royal Navy.I read a little about the facts in a time when ships has a very bad comunication sistem,must only remember Titanic tragedy , with no proportions about the modernity and capacity of a huge steam ship and the scarce of a comunication reduced to telegrahic Morse sistem who induced a error by bad intepretation of signals.Here happens the same,imagine 2 fleet in the very corner of the world 2 admirals and about 4.000 mens receiving instrutions.Added a stormy sea by nature the Pacific ocean.Both navies has aditional task forces en other places and both knew that were the end results of a first confrontation be a pirrical victory because the retalation came as in the history happens.South american coast has been a election place in I and II world of refugee place to germans ships as happens after in Rio de la Plata,before was the chilean south coast.After the battle never happens other navy incident at Coronel bay near Concepcion and many people ignore that in this place happened one of the greatest sea battle of all world.Only a simple reminder in stone in the local cementery reminds the facts and now is a quiet fishing port over a natural burial and trh iron remainders if some one stay there of two the most greatest war ships of the Royal Navy when XX began.
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