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Originally Posted by TiredOldSoldier
Given enough time the Germans may actually attempt something even sneakier like loading a couple of the small torpedo boats they used on the auxilliary cruisers on a merchant hull and try to ship them to the estuary, the chance of bagging a major warship and saving Graf Spee is definetly worth the risk, AFAIK those boats were originally designed to be carried by the Type III U-Boats that were never built but would have been very useful in this situation with their much better range compared to the VII..
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The mini schnellboote were far from ready in the discussed timeframe. Building the special torpedoes they needed was far from finished and the LS boats shipped on the raiders were used as minelayers, only the last raider (forgot the name) had a torpedo carrying LS boot.
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