Leipzig

Scuttled

Type	Light cruiser
War	Second World War
Main guns	9 × 15 cm (5.9 in) SK C/25 guns

Torpedoed by HMS Salmon in December 1939 and nearly cut in half when Prinz Eugen rammed her in fog in October 1944. Patched up, she ended the war carrying refugees in the Baltic, and was loaded with poison gas shells and scuttled in the North Sea in 1946.

Lot-2275-77: German Warships, WWII. German light cruiser Leipzig, starboard view, 1934 (during visit in Portsmouth in July 1934). Halftone image from Division of Naval Intelligence, Identification and Characteristics Section, June 1943. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/05/06). Photo: National Museum of the U.S. Navy, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

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

Armour

Belt armor: 50 mm (2 in)
Deck: 30 mm (1.2 in)
Conning tower: 100 mm (3.9 in)

Laid down	28 April 1928
Launched	18 October 1929
Commissioned	8 October 1931
Displacement	Full load: 8,100 t (8,000 long tons; 8,900 short tons)
Length	177 m (580 ft 9 in)
Speed	32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Complement	26 officers 508 enlisted men

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

Career

Launched

18 October 1929

Salmon torpedoes Leipzig and Nürnberg

Damaged

13 December 1939

Hit amidships; out of action for a year

Fate

Scuttled

Scuttled July 1946