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SMS Nürnberg (1906)
SMS ''Nürnberg'' ("His Majesty's Ship ''Nürnberg''"), named after the Bavarian city of Nuremberg, was a light cruiser built for the German Imperial Navy (''Kaiserliche Marine''). Her sisters included , , and . 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 guns, eight guns, and two submerged torpedo tubes. Her top speed was .
''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 . 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; sank ''Nürnberg'', with heavy loss of life.
==Construction==
(詳細はErsatz'' " and was laid down at the Imperial Dockyard in Kiel on 16 January 1906. At her launching on 28 August 1906, the mayor of her namesake, Dr. Georg von Schuh, christened ''Nürnberg'', after which fitting-out work commenced. She was commissioned into the High Seas Fleet on 10 April 1908.〔Gröner, pp. 104–105〕〔Hildebrand, Röhr, & Steinmetz, p. 168〕 The ship was long overall and had a beam of and a draft of forward. She displaced at full combat load. Her propulsion system consisted of two 3-cylinder triple expansion engines powered by eleven coal-fired Marine-type boilers. These provided a top speed of and a range of approximately at . ''Nürnberg'' had a crew of 14 officers and 308 enlisted men.〔Gröner, p. 104〕
The ship was armed with ten 10.5 cm SK L/45 guns in single pedestal mounts. Two were placed side by side forward on the forecastle, six were located amidships, three on either side, and two were side by side aft.〔Gardiner & Gray, p. 157〕 The guns had a maximum elevation of 30 degrees, which allowed them to engage targets out to .〔Gardiner & Gray, p. 140〕 They were supplied with 1,500 rounds of ammunition, for 150 shells per gun. The ship was also equipped with eight 5.2 cm SK L/55 guns with 4,000 rounds of ammunition. She was also equipped with a pair of torpedo tubes with five torpedoes submerged in the hull on the broadside. The ship was protected by an armored deck that was thick amidships. The conning tower had thick sides.〔
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