The nearest to completion, "Graf Spee", had been launched on 15 September 1917 with a speech by Prince Henry of Prussia and a christening by the widow of Vice Admiral Maximilian von Spee.
The nearest to completion, "Graf Spee", was sold for scrap in October 1921. The "Graf Spee" had been launched on 15 September 1917 with a speech by Prince Henry of Prussia and a christening by the widow of Vice Admiral Maximilian von Spee.