SMS Nürnberg (1906)
SMS Nürnberg underway before the war
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 German Empire
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| Name: | Nürnberg |
| Namesake: | Nürnberg |
| Builder: | Howaldtswerke, Kiel |
| Laid down: | 1906 |
| Launched: | 28 April 1906 |
| Commissioned: | 10 April 1908 |
| Fate: | Sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands, 8 December 1914 |
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| Class and type: | Königsberg-class light cruiser |
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| Length: | 115.3 m (378 ft) |
| Beam: | 13.2 m (43 ft) |
| Draft: | 5.29 m (17.4 ft) |
| Propulsion: | Twin triple expansion engines, 13,200 ihp (9,800 kW) |
| Speed: | 23.4 knots (43.3 km/h) |
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SMS Nürnberg ("His Majesty's Ship Nürnberg"), named after the Bavarian city of Nuremberg, was a Königsberg-class light cruiser built for the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine). Her sisters included Königsberg, Stettin, and Stuttgart. She was built by the Imperial Dockyard in Kiel, laid down in early 1906 and launched in April of that year. She was completed in April 1908. Nürnberg was armed with ten 4.1-inch (100 mm) guns, eight 5.2 cm (2.0 in) guns, and two submerged torpedo tubes. Her top speed was 23.4 knots (43.3 km/h; 26.9 mph).
Nürnberg served with the fleet briefly, before being deployed overseas in 1910. She was assigned to the East Asia Squadron. At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, she was returning to the German naval base at Tsingtao from Mexican waters. She rejoined the rest of the Squadron, commanded by Vice Admiral Maximilian von Spee, which steamed across the Pacific Ocean and encountered a British squadron commanded by Rear Admiral Christopher Cradock. In the ensuing Battle of Coronel on 1 November, the British squadron was defeated; Nürnberg finished off the British cruiser HMS Monmouth. A month later, the Germans attempted to raid the British base in the Falkland Islands; a powerful British squadron that included a pair of battlecruisers was in port, commanded by Vice Admiral Doveton Sturdee. Sturdee's ships chased down and destroyed four of the five German cruisers; HMS Kent sank Nürnberg, with heavy loss of life.
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