German cruiser Nürnberg
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The Nürnberg, following World War II in Soviet service as the Admiral Makarov, was a German light cruiser of the Leipzig class named after the city of Nuremberg.
Built by Deutsche Werft in Kiel, she was laid down in 1934, launched on 6 December 1934, and completed on 2 November 1935. With a length of 181.3 m and a width of 16.4 m, she displaced 6,520 tons standard and 9,040 tons fully loaded. Her armament comprised 9 x 150 mm guns in three triple turrets, 8 x 88 mm anti-aircraft (AA) guns (4x2), 8 x 37 mm AA guns, 8x20 mm AA machine guns, 12 torpedo tubes, and 2 aircraft. The propulsion system consisted of 3 propellors, 2 turbines with 60,000 hp, a centre diesel with 12,400 hp, giving her a top speed of 32 knots. Her armour was 6 inches at the belt, 3.25 inches on the turrets, and 0.75 inches on deck. She carried a crew of 900.
While covering minelaying operations off the British North Sea coast, the ship was torpedoed during the night of 12/13 December 1939 by HMSM Salmon -- as was her older (and smaller) sistership Leipzig. Under repair until May 1940, she 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 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, an old WWI ship-of-the line) sailed for Libau. On arrival on 5 January 1946, the ship was renamed Admiral Makarov. She then served as flagship of the 8th (Northern Baltic) fleet, based at Tallinn, until 1955. After the main boilers broke down in February 1957, she was re-classified a training cruiser and based at Kronshtadt, before being stricken from the navy records in February 1959 and scrapped.
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