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Karlsruhe was a light cruiser, the second member of the Königsberg class, and served from November 1929 to May 1938, and again from November 1939 to April 1940, seeing action in World War II. She was operated by two German navies, the Reichsmarine and the Kriegsmarine .
Oct 3, 2020 · The ship was bombed and sunk by Soviet planes in 1945, killing hundreds of passengers and crew. The divers hope to find the Amber Room, a lost treasure looted by the Nazis, in the wreckage.
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Sep 9, 2021 · The group of Polish amateur divers last year found the wreck of the Karlsruhe, a German ship which was sank by the Royal Navy in 1945, 289 ft deep and 43 mi from the Polish coastal town of Ustka
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Oct 23, 2020 · Divers have found the wreck of the Karlsruhe, a German steamer sunk by Soviet planes in 1945, off the coast of Poland. The ship may hold clues to the fate of the Amber Room, a priceless artifact looted by the Nazis during World War II.
Sep 8, 2020 · A German warship sunk by a torpedo during World War II has been found on the seabed off Norway, more than eight decades after it was attacked. Statnett, the Norwegian state-owned power grid...
Karlsruhe. (ship) Several naval ships of Germany have been named Karlsruhe after the city of Karlsruhe, Germany: SMS Karlsruhe (1912), World War I German light cruiser, launched 1912, sunk 1914. SMS Karlsruhe (1916), Königsberg -class light cruiser, launched 1916, scuttled 1919.
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Oct 7, 2020 · The sunken German ship off the coast of Poland may hold the dismantled pieces of the Russian treasure looted by the Nazis and lost since 1945. The Amber Room was a stunning paneled room from an imperial palace, made of amber and gold leaf, that the Nazis tried to salvage from St. Petersburg.
