German cruiser Nürnberg
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | 1928 |
| Laid down: | April 1933 |
| Launched: | August 1934 |
| Commissioned: | February 1935 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1961 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 9,040 tons |
| Length: | 181.3 m |
| Beam: | 16.3 m |
| Draft: | 5.74 m |
| Propulsion: | Steam turbines and Diesel, 3 shafts (Diesel on center shaft), 66,000 shp (45 MW) turbines + 12,400 hp (9.3 MW) diesel |
| Speed: | 32 knots |
| Range: | 5700 nm at 19 knots |
| Complement: | 683-896 |
| Armament: | 3 × 3 5.9 inch (150 mm) guns 8 × 88 mm guns 8 × 37 mm guns 4 × 20 mm AA guns 12 × 533 mm torpedoes 120 mines |
| Aircraft: | 2 Arado 196 floatplanes |
The Nürnberg, was a German light cruiser of the Leipzig class named after the city of Nuremberg. Some sources consider the Leipzig and Nürnberg to be of separate, single ship, classes. After World War II, Nürnberg was transferred to the Soviet Union and renamed Admiral Makarov.
While covering minelaying operations off the British North Sea coast, the ship was torpedoed during the night of 12 December/13 December 1939 by HMS Salmon - as was her older (and smaller) sistership Leipzig. She was under repair until May 1940, and so missed the Norwegian Campaign. From July 1940 through January 1945, Nürnberg served either in and off Norway or in German home waters. At the end of the war the ship was surrendered in Copenhagen.
Assigned as a war prize to the Soviet Navy, she was entered on the Soviet navy records on 5 November 1945 and assigned to the Baltic Fleet. In January 1946, she and five other formerly German ships - destroyer (Erich Steinbrink, torpedo boats T33 and T107, dispatch vessel Blitz and the target ship Hessen, (a disarmed World War I battleship) - sailed for Libau (Liepāja), then in the Latvian SSR. On arrival on 5 January 1946, Nürnberg was renamed Admiral Makarov. She then served as flagship of the 8th (Northern Baltic) fleet, based at Tallinn, until 1955. When the main boilers broke down in February 1957, she was re-classified a training cruiser and based at Kronstadt and , in February 1959, stricken from the navy records and scrapped.
