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Conning tower: 100 mm (3.9 in) 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. She had two sister ships, Königsberg and Köln.
SMS Karlsruhe. SMS. Karlsruhe. SMS Karlsruhe was a light cruiser of the Karlsruhe class built by the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy). She had one sister ship, SMS Rostock; the ships were very similar to the previous Magdeburg -class cruisers. The ship was laid down in 1911, launched in November 1912, and completed by January 1914.
Small cruiser SMS Karlsruhe. The small cruiser SMS Karlsruhe belonged to the eponymous cruiser class, which consisted of only two ships. The SMS Karlsruhe led in the Atlantic at the beginning of the First World War successful trade war predominantly against British merchant ships. The early sinking of the ship was kept so secret by the German ...
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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. German cruiser Karlsruhe, 7,200 ton Königsberg -class light cruiser, launched 1927 ...
The Karlsruhe was commissioned on 6 November 1929 in Wilhelmshaven under the command of Eugen Lindau. From May 1930 to June 1936, the cruiser was used as a training ship for officers during five long training cruises across the world’s oceans. On the fifth cruise in 1935 and 1936, during a crossing between Japan and the United States, the ...
Nov 4, 2014 · The two German ships headed off; Suffolk pursued Karlsruhe, but was unable to catch the faster German ship. Kronprinz Wilhelm had received two 88mm guns, but only a third of the intended ammunition. The high speed chase used up a lot of Karlsruhe’s coal, so her captain, Fregattenkapitän Erich Köhler, decided to head for Newport News in order to coal.
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Karlsruhe. The three K-class Light Cruisers were the first modern cruisers of the German navy after World War I. For the first time, the main artillery of a German CL was mounted in real turrets and not in single mounts as before. An interesting detail was that the afterwards turrets were mounted off the centerline to give them a better arc of ...
