Light Cruisers: Leipzig Class

[Brian James]

Leipzig Class Light Cruiser Nürnberg pictured at Klaipeda, Lithuania in 1939. After the end of the war, Nürnberg was seized by the RN and ultimately awarded to the Soviet Union as war reparations. In December 1945, a Soviet crew took over the ship, and the following month took her to Tallinn, where she was renamed Admiral Makarov. She served in the Soviet Navy, first in the 8th Fleet, then as a Training Cruiser based at Kronstadt. By 1960, she had been broken up for scrap.