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''Leipzig'' was the lead ship of her class of light cruisers built by the German navy. She had one sister ship, ''Nürnberg''. ''Leipzig'' was laid down in April 1928, was launched in October 1929, and was commissioned into the ''Reichsmarine'' in October 1931. Armed with a main battery of nine guns in three triple turrets, ''Leipzig'' had a top speed of . ''Leipzig'' participated in non-intervention patrols during the Spanish Civil War. In the first year of World War II, she performed escort duties for warships in the Baltic and North seas. While on one of these operations in December 1939, the ship was torpedoed by a British submarine and badly damaged. Repairs were completed by late 1940, when she returned to service as a training ship. She provided gunfire support to the advancing ''Wehrmacht'' troops as they invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. In October 1944, ''Leipzig'' collided with the heavy cruiser ''Prinz Eugen''; the damage was so severe that the navy decided complete repairs were unfeasible. The ship was patched up to keep her afloat, and she helped to defend Gotenhafen from the advancing Red Army in March 1945. She then carried a group of fleeing German civilians, reaching Denmark by late April. After the end of the war, ''Leipzig'' was used as a barracks ship for minesweeping forces and was scuttled in July 1946. ==Design== (詳細はlong overall and had a beam of and a maximum draft of forward. She displaced at full combat load. Her propulsion system consisted of two steam turbines and four 7-cylinder MAN two-stroke double-acting diesel engines,〔 which were the basis for the unsuccessful US Navy Hooven-Owens-Rentschler design.〔Friedman, p. 264〕 Steam for the turbines was provided by six Marine-type double-ended oil-fired boilers. The ship's propulsion system provided a top speed of and a range of approximately at using only the diesel engines. ''Leipzig'' had a crew of 26 officers and 508 enlisted men.〔Gröner, p. 122〕 The ship was armed with nine 15 cm SK C/25 guns mounted in three triple gun turrets. One was located forward, and two were placed in a superfiring pair aft, all on the centerline. They were supplied with between 1,080 and 1,500 rounds of ammunition, for between 120 and 166 shells per gun. As built, the ship was also equipped with two 8.8 cm SK L/45 anti-aircraft guns in single mounts; they had 400 rounds of ammunition each. ''Leipzig'' also carried four triple torpedo tube mounts located amidships; they were supplied with twenty-four torpedoes. She was also capable of carrying 120 naval mines.〔Gröner, p. 120〕 The ship was protected by an armored deck that was thick amidships and an armored belt that was thick. The conning tower had thick sides.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「German cruiser Leipzig」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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