In
Service: 17 April 1929 to 10 April 1940
Ordered: Builder: Reichsmarinewerft,
Wilhelmshaven
Construction No: 108
Laid down: 12 April 1926
Launched: 26 March 1927
Commissioned: 17 April 1929
Type: Light cruiser
Class: Königsberg
Displacement:
6,000 tons standard 7,700 tons full load
Length: 174 m
Beam:
15.2 m
Draft: 6.28 m
Propulsion: 3 × shafts 4 MAN
10 × cylinder diesels engines 2 × geared turbines producing up to
68,000 shp
Propellers: 3
Speed: 32.1 knots
Range:
5,700 nautical miles at 19 knots
Crew: 850 men and officers
Armament:
9 × 15 cm L/60 SK C/25
carried 1,080 rounds
2 × 8.8 cm L/45
SK C/35
carried 800 rounds
2 × 8.8 cm L/76 SK C/32 after 1933 4
after 1935
carried 1,600 rounds
6 × 8.8 cm L/76 SK C/32 after 1940
carried 2,400 rounds
8 × 3.7 cm L/83 SK C/30 after 1934
carried
9,600 rounds
8 × 20 cm MG L/65 C/30 18 after 1934
carried 17,600
rounds
12 × 53.3 cm torpedoe tubes
24 × torpedo's carried
120 mines
Armour Belt 50 to 70 mm, Deck 40 mm, Turrets 20 mm,
Aircraft:
2 ×
Heinkel
He 60 seaplanes
Electronics: Operators: Kriegsmarine
Variants: Königsberg Emden
Karlsruhe Köln
Leipzig Nürnberg
Other: Auxiliary cruisers
Articles: Königsberg was a light cruiser of the K class in the German
Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine. Her fellow ships were Köln and Karlsruhe.
After a series of foreign visits in the 1930s, the ships operations were
along the Spanish coast from November 1936 to January 1937 throughout the Spanish
Civil War. Her design and manufacture meant she was poorly suited to commerce
raiding or deep-water operations, and after war broke out in September 1939 she
was allocated to duty as a torpedo training ship in the Baltic and later used
for mining operations in the North Sea (Operation Westwal).
17 April 1929 The Königsberg is commissioned.
8 April 1940 The Königsberg takes part in operation Weserübung
(Invasion of Denmark and Norway) along with Köln and training ship Bremse
and the torpedo boats, Leopard and Wolf, transports troops from Wilhelmshaven
to Bergen.
9 April 1940 The Königsberg and artillery
training ship Bremse are hit by Norwegian coastal batteries. The Köln and
the torpedo boats Leopard and Wolf, return to Germany while the damaged Königsberg
stays in Bergen.
10 April 1940 The Königsberg is attacked
by the RAF, 15 Skua dive bombers sink the Königsberg with three direct hits.
Although Königsberg is still afloat after the attack, she capsizes shortly
after in Bergen harbour.
17 July 1942 The Königsberg
is raised.
1943 The Königsberg is used as a pier for
U-boats.
22 September 1944 The Königsberg capsized again.
1945 The Königsberg is broken up, and scrapped in Bergen.
Wolf
von Trotha
Takes command on 17 April 1929
Ends command on 24 June
1929
Robert
Withoeft Emden
Takes command on 24 June 1929
Ends command on 2 September
1929
Robert
Withoeft Emden
Takes command on 2 September 1929
Ends command on 27
September 1930
Hermann
Densch
Takes command on 27 September 1930
Ends command on 25 September
1932
Otto
von Schrader
Takes command on 25 September 1932
Ends command on 25
September 1934
Hubert
Schmundt
Takes command on 25 September 1934
Ends command on 27 September
1935
Theodor
Paul
Takes command on 27 September 1935
Ends command on 16 February
1937
Robin
Schall Emden
Takes command on 16 February 1937
Ends command on 2 November
1938
Ernst
Scheurlen
Takes command on 2 November 1938
Ends command on 27 June
1939
Kurt-Caesar
Hoffmann
Takes command on 27 June 1939
Ends command on 15 September
1939
Heinrich
Ruhfus
Takes command on 14 September 1939
Ends command on 10 April
1940
German
Warships, 1815-1945: Major Surface Vessels.
ISBN-10: 0851775330
German
Warships, 1815-1945: U-boats and Mine Warfare Vessels.
ISBN-10: 155750301X
German warships of the Second World War.
ISBN-10: 0668040378
For a complete list of
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