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Music Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War, episode 157,

The Early War at Sea Part 7, Graf's Spey on a Rampage.

This week, a big thank you goes out to Nile for choosing to support

the podcast by becoming a member. You can find out more over at History of the Second World War.com

slash members. When the last episode ended, the Admiral Graf Spey had finally gotten its

commerce rating mission underway in the South Atlantic. Working together with its supply ship, the Altmark,

the Graf's Bay was on a mission to sink or capture British shipping that was transiting the coast

of South America and Africa. This episode begins on October 10, 1939, as the Graffs Bay had

cited the British cargo ship, Huntsman. The Grafs Bay signaled the Huntsman to stop,

and as soon as that signal was received, the radio officer on the Huntsman began sending

the same raider warning transmission over the radio that some of the previous ships had

also sent as the Graf's Bay bore down on them. As soon as this started, another signal was

received from the Graf's Bay that,

unless the radio transmissions ended immediately, the Graf's Bay would open fire.

The merchant crew made the reasonable choice to end the transmission. An armed boarding party

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