Nürnberg

Survived

Type	Light cruiser
Later service	Admiral Makarov (Soviet Navy)
War	Second World War
Main guns	9 × 5.9″ guns

Torpedoed by HMS Salmon with Leipzig in December 1939. She spent most of the war in the Baltic and Norway, and was given to the Soviet Union in 1945 as Admiral Makarov.

For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Leichter Kreuzer "Nürnberg" Photo: UnknownUnknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

9 × 15 cm (5.9 in) SK C/25 guns
8 × 8.8 cm (3.5 in) SK C/32 guns
8 × 3.7 cm (1.5 in) SK C/30 guns
4 × 2 cm (0.79 in) guns
12 × 53.3 cm (21 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	1934
Launched	6 December 1934
Commissioned	2 November 1935
Displacement	Full load: 9,040 metric tons (8,900 long tons; 9,960 short tons)
Length	181.3 m (595 ft)
Speed	32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Complement	25 officers 648 enlisted men

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

Career

Launched

6 December 1934

Salmon torpedoes Leipzig and Nürnberg

Damaged

13 December 1939

Hit forward

Fate

Survived

Scrapped 1959 or 1960