Achilles Bank

Achilles Bank (49˚33'00" 124˚30'00" E of Hornby I, Str of Georgia). Named in 1945 after HMNZS Achilles, a British Leander-class light cruiser built 1932 and on loan to the NZ navy. The ship joined RN cruisers Exeter and Ajax to overcome the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee in the 1939 Battle of the River Plate. The Graf Spee retreated to the neutral harbour of Montevideo, Uruguay, where it was scuttled and destroyed by members of its crew. In 1948 the 169-m, 6,594-tonne Achilles was...

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