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		German U-boats and two pocket battleships sail for their war stations in the Atlantic late August.
		German Heavy Warships and Raiders - Pocket battleship "Admiral Scheer" was hunting in the South Atlantic, while battlecruisers "Scharnhorst" and "Gneisenau" in Germany and heavy cruiser "Hipper" in Brest, France prepared to sail.
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	German cruiser Leipzig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The German light cruiser Leipzig was the lead ship of her class (Nürnberg was her improved sister ship).
		She was the fourth German warship to carry the name of the city of Leipzig.
		At the end of World War II Leipzig was surrendered to British forces, moved to Wilhelmshaven, and scuttled in the North Sea with a cargo of gas munitions on 16 December 1946.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_cruiser_Leipzig (282 words)

	German cruiser Prinz Eugen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On 15 October 1944, she collided with the light cruiser Leipzig in heavy fog in the Baltic Sea, nearly cutting the smaller ship in two.
		At the end of the war, she was one of only two operational German cruisers left (the other was Nürnberg), and was surrendered at Copenhagen on 7 May 1945.
		In 1978 her port propeller was salvaged and is preserved at the German Naval Memorial at Kiel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_cruiser_Prinz_Eugen (726 words)

	Battle of the Falkland Islands
		The German light cruisers were in the order Dresden leading followed by Nürnberg and Leipzig whilst the British were led by Glasgow with Cornwall and Kent trying to keep up with her.
		Leipzig's firing was good but she didn't hit Glasgow and her shells didn't do much damage to Cornwall.
		Although the German guns were excellent, often having longer range than the British 6 inch guns, in the end the greater hitting power of the 6 inch gun persuaded them to switch, throughout the various battles of Spee, Emden, Königsberg and Karlsruhe the most heavily armed warship won all of the battles.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /falkland.html (2100 words)

	Avalanche Press
		Cruiser Warfare, the most recent game in our Great War at Sea series, is built around the attempt by the German East Asia Cruiser Squadron to steam from its isolated base at Tsingtao in northern China around the world to Germany.
		Leipzig, Emden and Nürnberg each carried ten 4.1-inch guns, a weapon favored by the Germans because of its high rate of fire: The 4.1-inch round was the largest that could be handled by a single crewman.
		The German cruisers also were much smaller than their British counterparts, coming in at 3,800 tons (4,200 for Emden) compared to 4,800 for Newcastle and 5,200 for Yarmouth.
	www.avalanchepress.com /GrafSpeeCruisers.php (1166 words)

	World War One - Brittannia Rules The Waves
		The light cruisers were not able to find the Good Hope, but the Nuremburg encountered the Monmouth and at 8.58 was able, by shots at closest range, to capsize her, without a single shot being fired in return.
		During the time the three cruisers were engaged with the Nuremburg and Leipzig, the Dresden, which was beyond her consorts, effected her escape, owing to her superior speed.
		The Glasgow was the only cruiser with sufficient speed to have had any chance of success, however she was fully employed in engaging the Leipzig for over an hour before either the Cornwall or Kent could come up and get within range.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles26/world-war-one-14.shtml (5299 words)

	German Navy Ships--Königsberg (Light Cruiser, 1929-1940)
		In company with her sister, Köln, and several other warships, Königsberg was loaded with German Army troops and secretly left Germany for the long and potentially dangerous run up to the target area.
		The German light cruiser Leipzig is in the center background, and a British "C" class light cruiser is in the upper right.
		It depicts the light cruisers Köln and Königsberg landing troops at Bergen, Norway, on 9 April 1940.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/germany/gersh-k/konigsb3.htm (621 words)

	The Website Located at TomStockton.us - Ships - LEIPZIG CL 1931
		During a minelaying sortie with NÜRNBERG on 13 December 1939, LEIPZIG was torpedoed amidships by the submarine HMS SALMON; while returning to port, she was attacked again (this time by the submarine HMS URSULA), but two of the three torpedoes intended for the damaged cruiser struck the sloop F9 instead.
		LEIPZIG was laid up at Kiel and decommissioned; later, she was transferred to Danzig for repairs.
		On 15 October 1944, while off the Hela Peninsula, LEIPZIG suffered engine problems and was temporarily adrift; while trying to recouple her engines, she was rammed by the heavy cruiser PRINZ EUGEN and nearly cut in two.
	www.tomstockton.us /ships/ships_-_l/ships-leipzig_cl_1931.htm (395 words)

	Forgotten Cruiserwarrior - SMS Dresden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For the German crew that cheered from the shores of the bay it was a noble end to an honorable ship, as well as to a long and arduous cruise.
		She was not the last cruiser to be sunk, nor was she the most productive, but her exploits ranked her as a significant menace to British control of the world's oceans in the first half year of war.
		The Battle of the Falkland Islands on December 8, 1914, was a massacre of the German squadron.
	www.cronab.demon.co.uk /Dresden.htm (3954 words)

	Matthew G. Kirschenbaum: Big Guns and Toys for Boys
		Craddock had repeatedly requested that the modern armored cruiser Defence join his squadron, a request summarily denied by the British Admiralty; the fast, well-armed Defence would be sent to the theater only after the disaster at Coronel, where her well-trained crew and four 9.2” guns could have trebled Craddock’s long-range capacity against von Spee.
		Leipzig, which suffered a flash fire from an ammo handling accident the first time it fired its guns, received multiple hits from Glasgow and Canopus, and began to go rapidly down at the bow; Dresden was also damaged in the exchange, though less severely so.
		Even had her guns stayed in action longer against the German armored cruisers, she was simply too lightly armored to remain effective in the face of the kind of firepower at von Spee’s disposal.
	www.otal.umd.edu /~mgk/blog/archives/000625.html (1409 words)

	Germany pamphlet - 1938 - on Spanish Civil War
		The cruiser 'Germany' was meanwhile within the Spanish territorial waters, in the port of the Baleares island Ibiza occupied by the rebels.
		It seems there are two German honours: the one, for the brothers Humboldt, Goethe and Schiller, the poets of 'Egmont' and 'Don Carlos', who are honoured in Spain, and the other one, the honour, which led the 'Junkers nationales' to Getafé, the 'the Moros', the honour of the label 'Berlin Rheinsdorf 1936'.
		Then German children on the way to school will be buried under debris and German women be complaining before the dead bodies of their kids, as you see on these pictures the Spanish women before their killed children.
	www.geocities.com /irelandscw/docs-German.htm (6422 words)

	Mercopress
		Chilean and German divers recovered the bell from the German cruiser "Dresden" scuttled during the First World War off the Chilean island of Juan Fernandez, reported Peter Neven, the German Embassy Cultural Attaché in Santiago.
		Together with SMS Leipzig she damaged and forced the escape of the British cruiser HMS Glasgow.
		In early December, SMS Dresden was the only German cruiser to escape at the disastrous Battle of the Falkland Islands, her turbine engines proving faster than her expansion-engine squadron mates.
	www.mercopress.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=7309 (621 words)

	EVENTS 1936
		German communiqué repeated that the Franco‑Soviet pact was incompatible with the Locarno treaties and the Covenant of the League of Nations.
		"The German Government have continually emphasized during the negotiations of the last years their readiness to observe and fulfill all the obligations arising from the Rhine pact as long as the other Contracting Parties were ready on their side to maintain the pact.
		The German Government are now constrained to face the new situation created by this alliance, a situation which is rendered more acute by the fact that the Franco-Soviet treaty has been supplemented by a treaty of alliance between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union exactly parallel in form.
	www.ibiblio.org /pha/events/1936.html (8355 words)

	FrankSeaver
		On the afternoon of 1 November, the German armored cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau approached on the horizon; the Leipzig was not, after all, along.
		The British were at a heavy disadvantage: against two elderly armored cruisers, an armed merchant ship, and a light cruiser, the Germans pitted two modern armored cruisers and two light cruisers, with the danger of a third, the Nurnberg, in the background.
		The Germans had seen a tremendous pall of smoke rising from the harbor, but thinking that the stocks of coal were being destroyed on their approach, they proceeded.
	californianavalaviation.homestead.com /FrankSeaver.html (4050 words)

	KMS Leipzig
		Leipzig was an improved version of the earlier K-Class cruiser, being laid down in 1928 and completed in October 1931.
		Leipzig's secondary armament was altered between 1931 and 1934, with a further six 3.5in guns being added and her torpedo tubes being enlarged to more the favorable 21in.
		In September 1941 Leipzig and the cruiser Emden bombarded Russian shore batteries and sank the MTB 83.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /kms_leipzig.htm (866 words)

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		She was temporarily transferred to the Second Cruiser Squadron of the Humber Force in Sep 39 before returning to the Home Fleet in Apr 40 for the Norwegian campaign.
		On the morning of 01 Jun 41, the cruisers Calcutta and Coventry, a Ceres-class light anti-aircraft cruiser, were enroute to from Alexandria to a rendezvous with Force D, under the command of Vice-Admiral King, which was returning from the final evacuation from Sphakia.
		The only Finnish boat was the torpedo boat "Sisu." The German pontoons were supported by an air detachment of 15 fighters and 7 recon planes, and the Finnish Air Force allocated their 3rd Air Regiment (with Fokker and Fiat planes).
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/june/25Jun.txt (1608 words)

	Rear Admiral Walter Hose
		Hose, who transferred to the RCN in 1912, worked hard to bring Rainbow up to standard for a cruiser of her class but watched as crew numbers fell until she had to be paid off in 1913 "with her belly flapping against her back-bone for want of personnel".
		There was intelligence of a German cruiser squadron operating in the South Pacific and, more urgently, the possibility of two German cruisers operating off the coast of Mexico.
		Rainbow was dispatched on 2 August, to guard trade routes north of the Equator, with a warning that she might encounter the German cruiser Leipzig.
	www.navalandmilitarymuseum.org /resource_pages/beginnings/hose.html (1940 words)

	German-East-Africa 1888/89
		The occurrences in the German Colony Deutschostafrika between August 1888 and May 1890 lead the largest military action of the Imperial German Navy before WW I. These occurrences are commonly known as the East African up rise“ or Arabian up rise“.
		In August 1885 the sultan of Zanzibar was compelled to by the German cruiser-squadron under the command of Konteradmiral Knorr, to admit the imperial German protectorate over the German acquisitions in inner-East Africa.
		The german Kreuzergeschwader (overseas-cruising-squadron), since August 31st 1888 under the command of Konteradmiral Deinhard, came in action in September 1888 and tried to force the Arabs to retreat from this places by landing operations and artillery gunning.
	www.medalnet.net /German_East_Africa_1888_89.htm (1445 words)

	America's War for Humanity eBook
		The German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau also operated in the Pacific, bombarding the French colony of Papeete, on the island of Tahiti, and inflicting much damage, including the sinking of two vessels.
		The German cruiser Dresden was reported sunk by British cruisers in South American waters in the second week of September.
		The Russian armored cruiser Bayan was sunk in a fight near the entrance to the Gulf of Finland.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/10147/195.html (487 words)

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		One of the pre-war cruisers that Germany retained was the
		The new German government was in constant monetary distress, leading to unheard of inflation in the early 1920s.
		However, the turrets were all on the centerline, unlike the K design that had the two aft turrets positioned one to left of centerline and one to right of centerline under the theory that this would give them a greater arc of fire forward.
	www.steelnavy.com /PM58Leipzig.htm (1864 words)

	Avalanche Press
		It’s ironic that the best-known warship in the history of the German navy is also one whose active-duty career was among the shortest in naval history.
		For the rest of that year, she and the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau remained at Brest, serving as a “fleet in being” to tie down British forces that might cause trouble elsewhere.
		Leipzig never regained operational capability, but Prinz Eugen shook it off and was back in action one month later.
	www.avalanchepress.com /PrinzEugen.php (1151 words)

	Naval Actions and losses 1939
		Jersey torpedoed and nearly sunk by the German destroyers Erich Giesse and Hans Lody.
		German cruisers Nurnberg and Leipzig torpedoed by British submarine Salmon.
		German cruiser Leipzig torpedoed by British submarine HMS Ursula.
	www.wolftree.freeserve.co.uk /Naval/Naval_Actions_WW239.html (358 words)

	SMS Leipzig Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was commissioned into the German High Seas Fleet in 1906.
		She soon joined Admiral Maximilian von Spee's East Asiatic Cruiser Squadron, and participated in the Battle of Coronel, where the German cruiser squadron virtually wiped out the Royal Navy force sent to stop them.
		SMS Leipzig was sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands a month later, where greatly superior British forces sank all but one of von Spee's cruisers.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/s/sm/sms_leipzig.html (116 words)

	Amazon.com: German Light Cruisers 1939-45 (New Vanguard): Books: Gordon Williamson,Ian Palmer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The German Navy of World War II was small in number, but contained some of the most technologically advanced capital ships in the world.
		Thereafter, the remaining cruisers were mostly used as training ships and in extremis in the last days of the war, for naval gunfire support.
		Williamson concludes that the light cruisers were the least successful of all German warships, which is incontestable in that they never sank or even damaged a single Allied vessel.
	www.amazon.com /German-Light-Cruisers-1939-45-Vanguard/dp/1841765031 (1554 words)

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		Her relatively high speed of over 15kts, made her a valuable blockade runner for the Germans, & was considered sufficient to rendered her invulnerable to submarine attack.
		Simultaneously the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen was steaming towards Gotenhafen to reammunition after bombardment operations against Russian forces.
		At 2005, 2.5 miles east of the Hela Peninsula, in dark and foggy conditions, Prinz Eugen rammed Leipzig amidships between the bridge superstructure and the funnel, nearly cutting her in half.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/october/15Oct.txt (2050 words)

	Leipzig Operational History
		At 8:04 pm the cruiser was rammed by the CA Prinz Eugen, returning to Gotenhafen (Gdynia) at 20 knots.
		The heavy damaged Leipzig was in danger to break up and was towed back to Gotenhafen (Gdynia) for temporary repairs.
		The Leipzig fires her guns in the land battle for Gotenhafen (Gdynia).
	www.german-navy.de /kriegsmarine/ships/lightcruiser/leipzig/operations.html (383 words)

	Point Grey Battery - Vancouver: Historical Background
		The only naval force was at Esquimalt, and this was an old and obsolete Cruiser, HMCS 'Rainbow', used for training purposes.
		Between the 'Rainbow' and the sloops was the German Cruiser 'Leipzig', with another German warship believed to be approaching.
		It was not until 1936, with the rising threat from Japan, who as allies in World War 1 had stationed the Cruiser 'Izumo' at Esquimalt, that the defences of Vancouver were again appraised.
	www.petrowilliamus.co.uk /pointgrey/history.htm (467 words)

	Californians and the Military: Frank Roger Seaver: A Hero's Life
		On the afternoon of 1 November, the German armored cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau approached on the horizon; the Leipzig was not, after all, along.
		The British were at a heavy disadvantage: against two elderly armored cruisers, an armed merchant ship, and a light cruiser, the Germans pitted two modern armored cruisers and two light cruisers, with the danger of a third, the Nurnberg, in the background.
		The Germans had seen a tremendous pall of smoke rising from the harbor, but thinking that the stocks of coal were being destroyed on their approach, they proceeded.
	www.militarymuseum.org /Seaver.html (4026 words)

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