Exeter Shoal

Exeter Shoal (49˚39'00" 124˚39'00" NE of N end of Denman I, Str of Georgia). The York-class heavy cruiser Exeter, launched in 1929, was flagship of the British naval squadron commanded by Commodore Henry Harwood in the 1939 Battle of the River Plate, where the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee was eventually destroyed at Montevideo, Uruguay. The 175-m, 7,610-tonne Exeter was badly damaged in the encounter, and 61 of her 630 crew members were killed. The ship was later sunk by...

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