Karlsruhe

Scuttled

Type	Light cruiser
Class	Königsberg
War	Second World War
Main guns	9 × 5.9″ guns

Landed troops at Kristiansand on 9 April 1940. Torpedoed that evening by the submarine HMS Truant and scuttled by a German torpedo boat.

For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Weltreise des deutschen Kreuzers "Karlsruhe"! Der deutsche Kreuzer "Karlsruhe" passiert auf seiner Weltreise den Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

9 × 15 cm (5.9 in) SL C/25 guns
2 × 8.8 cm (3.5 in) SK L/45 anti-aircraft guns
12 × 50 cm (20 in) torpedo tubes
120 mines

Armour

Belt: 50 mm (2 in)
Deck: 40 mm (1.6 in)
Conning tower: 100 mm (3.9 in)

Builder	Deutsche Werke, Kiel
Laid down	27 July 1926
Launched	20 August 1927
Commissioned	6 November 1929
Displacement	7,700 long tons (7,800 t)
Length	174 m (570 ft 10 in)
Speed	32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Complement	21 officers 493 enlisted men

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

20 August 1927

Sinking of Karlsruhe

Scuttled

9 April 1940

Sunk by the torpedo boat Greif