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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.
Sep 20, 2020 · Sep 20, 2020 Ian Harvey, Guest Author. Credit: iSURVEY AS CC BY-SA 4.0. German light cruiser, the Karlsruhe, has been identified on the seabed 13 nautical miles off Norway 80 years after she was sunk during the invasion. Lying in deep water she was detected just 15 metres from a Norwegian power grid sub-sea cable that connects Denmark and Norway.
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Sep 9, 2020 · On April 9, 1940, the German warship Karlsruhe sank off the southern coast of Norway after sustaining damage in a torpedo strike. For the next 80 years, the wreck’s location remained unknown.
Sep 6, 2020 · Statnett/Isurvey. Unique discovery on the seabed: Wreck of sunken WWII Warship discovered after 80 years. 490 meters below sea level, Norwegian Statnett discovered the German cruiser "Karlsruhe", the warship that led the attack on Kristiansand during the invasion of Norway on April 9, 1940. The German cruiser was set under fire from Norwegian ...
Sep 8, 2020 · CNN —. 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 ...
Sep 11, 2020 · The wreck of a sunken Nazi warship was discovered off the coast of Norway by an energy company inspecting undersea cables. The Karlsruhe, the German cruiser which led the attack on the southern ...
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Oct 7, 2020 · The wreck of the German steamship Karlsruhe lies 88 meters (290 feet) below the surface of the Baltic Sea and a few dozen kilometers north of the resort town of Ustka, Poland. It’s in excellent ...
