German cruiser Nürnberg
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| Name: | Nürnberg |
| Ordered: | 1928 |
| Laid down: | November 1933 |
| Launched: | December 1934 |
| Commissioned: | November 1935 |
| Fate: | Surrendered 1945. Assigned as a war prize to the Soviet Navy |
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| Name: | Admiral Makarov (Адмирал Макаров) |
| Commissioned: | 5 November 1945 |
| Renamed: | 5 January 1946 |
| Reclassified: | Training cruiser, February 1957 |
| Struck: | February 1959 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1959 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 9,040 tons |
| Length: | 181.3 m (594 ft 10 in) |
| Beam: | 16.3 m (53 ft 6 in) |
| Draught: | 5.74 m (18 ft 10 in) |
| 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 (59 km/h) |
| Range: | 5,700 nautical miles (10,600 km) at 19 knots (35 km/h) |
| Complement: | 683-896 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
• FuMO 63 Hohentwiel K |
| Armament: | 3x3 15 cm/60 (5.9") SK C/25 6× 8.8 cm/76 (3.46") SK C/32 8× 3.7 cm/L83 (1.5") SK C/30 8× 2 cm/65 (0.79") C/30 12× 533 mm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes 120 mines |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 × Arado 196 floatplanes |
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| Part of: | Twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet |
| Commanders: | Hubert Schmundt Walter Hennecke |
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 after the Russian admiral Stepan 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 - the destroyer Erich Steinbrinck, 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 (Адмирал Макаров) and classified as light cruiser. She then served as flagship of the 8th (Northern Baltic) fleet, based at Tallinn, until 1955. When the main boilers broke down on February 21, 1957, she was re-classified a training cruiser and based at Kronstadt and, on February 20, 1959, stricken from the navy records and scrapped.
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[edit] Sensors
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As of the Summer 1944 - May 1945 the Nürnberg was fixed with the FuMO 63 Hohentwiel K radar to the mainmast.
[edit] Gallery
[edit] See also
Media related to Nürnberg (1934) at Wikimedia Commons
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