Nurnberg (Nurnberg Class)

Laid down	4th November 1933
Launched	8th December 1934
Completed	N/A
Commissioned	2nd November 1935
Fate	Scrapped: 1960
Builders	Deutsche Werke, Kiel Germany
Complement	896
Dimensions
Displacement	7091 tons std 9115 tons max
Dimensions	593' 9" x 53' 6"
Draught	16' 6"
Armament
Main guns	9 x 5.9" (3 x 3)
Secondary guns	6 x 3.46" (3 x 2)
Torpedo tubes	12 x 21" (4 x 3)
Other weapons	As built: 8 x 37mm (4 x 2) 4 x 20mm (4 x 1) 1944: 2 x 40mm (2 x 1) 8 x 37mm (4 x 2) 29 x 20mm (2 x 4, 10 x 2, 1 x 1)
Countermeasures	None
Armour	Deck: 1.5" Belt: 2" - 2.7" C.T.: 4" Turrets: 0.75" - 1"
Aircraft Facilities
Aircraft	2 x He60 seaplanes
Flightdeck	None
Hangar	N/A
Catapults	1
Arrestor system	None
Aviation fuel	N/A
Electronics Fit
Radar	As built: None Refitted: FuMo 25 FuMo 63
Sonar	None
ECM	None
Other	N/A
Machinery
Engines	6 x Marine boilers 2 x Krupps steam turbines 4 x MAN diesels
Power output	66000shp turbines 12400bhp diesels
Speed	32kts
Shafts	2
Range	2400NM @ 15kts
Fuel	1055 tons oil 255 tons diesel

Nurnberg was to have had her hull strengthened, but this never happened. In 1939 she was damaged by the British submarine Salmon, along with the Leipzig, but the damaged was not as serious, and she was ready for action in April 1940, although the aft tubes were removed during repairs.

In 1942 the aircraft and catapult were removed at Kiel and until the end of 1944 she was used as a flagship for destroyers and a minelayer. In 1944 her antiaircraft armament was augmented, and radar added.

Postwar she was given to the Russians as reparations and renamed Admiral Marakov. In the late 1950s she became a training ship until her scrapping.

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