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Karlsruhe. 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.
Karlsruhe was a light cruiser of the German K class in World War II, the additional ships in class being the Königsberg and Köln. The K class were the foremost cruisers of the German navy to procure electric welding methods and a freshly designed triple 15 cm gun turrets were affixed. Career. 6 November 1929.
LIGHT CRUISER KARLSRUHE The light cruiser Karlsruhe after reconstruction in 1939. CAREER TIMELINE. 27 July 1926: Lay down at Deutsche Werke, Kiel. Construction number 207. 20 August 1927: Launched. Named after the German city of Karlsruhe. 06 November 1929: Commissioned under Captain Eugen Lindau. January 1930: Conducts the first series of sea ...
Upon commissioning in late 1929, light cruiser Karlsruhe served as a training ship. In the early 1930s, she embarked on a world cruise; during that cruise, weakness in her hull plating resulted in a pause in her voyage for structural repairs at San Diego, California, United States. She undertook further long voyages during the 1930s.
- Deutsche Werke Kiel
- K-class Light Cruiser
- Germany
- 207
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 · September 9, 2020. A sonar scan of the German warship Karlsruhe, which was recently discovered off the southern coast of Norway Statnett. On April 9, 1940, the German warship Karlsruhe sank off ...
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Oct 21, 2020 · Two German ships called Karlsruhe sank in the Baltic during World War II—one at the beginning of the war and one at the end.Remarkably, both were identified only this year. In September, the ...
