Light Cruisers: Leipzig Class

[Brian James]

Leipzig Class Light Cruiser Nürnberg pictured with her Heinkel He 60 Floatplane embarked midships.c1937.
Nürnberg was laid down in 1934,at Deutsche Werke Shipyards,Kiel and launched in December of that year, and completed in November 1935. She was armed with a main battery of nine 5.9 in guns in three triple turrets and could steam at a speed of 32 knots. Nürnberg was the longest-serving major warship of the Kriegsmarine, and the only one to see active service after the end of World War II, though not in the German navy.
In the late 1930s, Nürnberg took part in the non-intervention patrols during the Spanish Civil War without major incident. After the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, she was used to lay defensive minefields off the German coast. She was thereafter used to escort offensive Mine-Layers in the North Sea until she was torpedoed by a British Submarine in December 1939. She was thereafter used as a Training Ship in the Baltic Sea for most of the rest of the war, apart from a short deployment to Norway from November 1942 to April 1943. In January 1945, she was assigned to Mine-Laying duties in the Skaggerak, but severe shortages of fuel permitted only one such operation.
After the end of the war, Nürnberg was seized by the Royal Navy 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 in Kronstadt. By 1960, she had been broken up for scrap.

[designeraccd]

The LEIPZIG is considered a one off; despite what WIKI states. Any German naval reference book will show otherwise.. The slightly larger NURNBERG was "evolved" from her design, but is also considered a 1 ship class. DFO

Class and type: Leipzig
Displacement: 8,100 t (8,000 long tons; 8,900 short tons)
Length: 177 m (580 ft 9 in)
Beam: 16.3 m (53 ft 6 in)
Draft: 5.69 m (18 ft 8 in)
Propulsion: Steam turbines and Diesels
3 shafts (Diesels on center shaft)
60,000 shp (45 MW) turbines + 12,400 hp (9.3 MW) diesels

Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)

NURNBERG
Displacement: 9,040 metric tons (8,900 long tons; 9,960 short tons)
Length: 181.3 m (595 ft)
Beam: 16.3 m (53 ft)
Draft: 5.74 m (18.8 ft)

[ivorthediver]

Thanks Dennis a well presented Post with excellent detail ,and specifications , add two brownie points to your playbook

Just the way I like them [ personally speaking I may add ] thanks for the detail and research carried out

[designeraccd]

No problem, scratch built my lil models of them long ago Curiously I never built the EMDEN until a couple of years ago. She was the most sea worthy of all their CLs, but had a antiquated gun layout. I built my EMDEN as per the colored side view. DFO

[ivorthediver]

Thanks again , your posts pass on what we need to know other than the Photo as I have said before which the likes of me who don't have the type shown details , all makes informed decisions about the subject matter so much easier keep up the good work ....by the way =..* * your extra stars promised

[Brian James]

Lead Ship,Light Cruiser Leipzig pictured as she nears the Hochdonn Bridge on the Kiel Canal c1935.

[designeraccd]

One of her in wartime camo........... DFO

[Brian James]

Lead Ship,Light Cruiser Leipzig pictured at Swinemunde in 1937.

[designeraccd]

In her final days, basically a hulk, but still with "teeth"......here firing a NGFS mission in 1945. DFO

[designeraccd]

several views of the last German CL: NURNBERG......... One of only two "large" ship survivors of the Kriegsmarine. DFO