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This work, executed in the form of a reference book, is the only one of its kind and has no analogues in Russia. For the first time in our country, it summarizes the basic information about combat ships of the main classes of special construction, which were involved in solving combat missions at sea in the interests of the German Navy. For large surface ships and submarines, along with the main tactical and technical elements, the main points of their combat activities during the war years are given. At the same time, special attention is paid to the conduct of hostilities against the Soviet Navy and in the operational zones of the Soviet Northern, Baltic and Black Sea fleets. The latter fundamentally distinguishes this guide from other similar works, both in our country and abroad, and allows you to clearly see the real damage caused by the German fleet to the Soviet and vice versa.

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2.3.7. Light cruisers of the "Konigsberg" class

In total, three ships of this type were built: "Konigsberg", "Karlsruhe" and "Cologne". They were the first in the German, and in the world military shipbuilding, cruisers with a combined main power plant and three-gun turrets of the main caliber. The main elements of these ships are given in table. 2.8.

In 1925 it was laid down at the naval shipyard in Wilhelmshaven under the lettering designation "B". On March 26, 27, it was launched and received the name "Konigsberg"; on April 17, 29, it entered service.

In April 1940 he took part in the Norwegian landing operation, being part of the third squadron of ships intended to capture Bergen, where he was damaged by the fire of the Norwegian coastal artillery. On April 10, 1940, during the elimination of the damage received the day before, he was sunk in Bergen by British aircraft, killing 18 people.

Light cruiser "Leipzig", 1933

Light cruiser "Leipzig", 1940

Light cruiser "Königsberg", 1930

In 1926 it was laid down at the Deutsche-Werke shipyard in Kiel under the lettering designation "C". On 20.08.27, it was launched and received the name "Karlsruhe", in November 1929 it entered service.

"By the time of the outbreak of World War II, it was under repair at the naval shipyard in Wilhelmshaven. In April 1940, participated in the Norwegian landing operation, leading the fourth detachment intended to capture Kristiansand and Arendal. On April 9, returning from Kristiansand to the base, torpedoed the British submarine Truant, but remained afloat, killing 11. Due to the impossibility of towing, she was sunk by two torpedoes from the German destroyer Grif.

In 1926, laid down at the naval shipyard in Wilhelmshaven under the lettering designation "D". 01/15/30 launched and received the name "Cologne", 05/23/28 entered service.

In April 1940 he took part in the Norwegian landing operation, leading the third squadron of ships intended to capture Bergen. In September 1941, he was a member of the Baltic Fleet, created to prevent the breakthrough of Soviet ships to Sweden for internment. On August 6, 1942, he arrived from the Baltic to Narvik, and at the beginning of February 1943 he returned to Germany.

January 1, 1945 was blown up by a mine. On March 30, he was damaged during a British air raid on Wilhelmshaven and landed on the ground, but used his artillery until May 2. In 1946 it was dismantled for metal.

So. Today I was even more fortunate. I harassed Colorado and they gave me Fire.

Impressions on the ship are not the most joyful. Yes, I liked him a little more than Koenigsberg. But not everything is so rosy.

The general impression is the Königsberg destroyer. Just as little is applied from a salvo by land mines, the maneuverability is "so-so", the ballistics is a little better, the machine and the rudders are also often killed.

Ballistics and accuracy - there are no complaints about it. The shells fall in a heap, but at the same time not in a "one point". Ballistics for EM is quite acceptable - for 12 km, the projectile flies a little less than eight seconds. But: I did not find the so-called "inviz corridor". If I shoot, I glow at any one.

Guns and Shells. Here are ours pumped up. I remember that about three months ago on Nicholas I managed to do 30,000 OF, 10,000 fires, another 30,000 torpedoes ... And it was all about battleships ... Oh, there were times. So. This Fiery High-Explosive Projectile does almost no damage. That is, you can knock out 5-7 thousand from the battleship (1000 per salvo), and then - emptiness. On cruisers, damage above a certain value also ceases to pass. Destroyers - 1500 per salvo is clearly not what I expected. With BB, everything is much better. On the one hand, it penetrates Battleships (not in the main armor belt, of course, but still), for 10 + km through the superstructures it enters the Omaha citadel, actively damages already battered heavy cruisers, but ... It almost does not hit the citadel standing exactly board ships at a distance of 7+ km. And to come closer is suicide. The traverse speed and survivability of the guns are also poor. (by the way, in every battle I killed the only large-caliber air defense system) The rear gun dies every three battles, the front gun, surprisingly, was never criticized. Each hit on the main battery gun has a 60-70% chance of killing it.

Speed ​​and maneuverability - even Nicholas's speed is better than that of Ognevoy. (By the way, I was surprised to find that the VG increased the speed of shifting the rudders to destroyers. I did not see this in any patch descriptions.) It is also better not to talk about maneuverability - 680 m circulation and 4 seconds of shifting the rudders is somehow too much for an EV. But enough to maneuver.

Reservation and survivability of modules - Very often the car and rudders fly away. Main battery guns and air defense installations also do not last long. And with torpedoes, surprisingly, everything is in order) Periodically disables ammunition depots, but there have been no detonations yet.

Air defense - it is almost nonexistent. Yes, we have damage per second for 2 km in the region of 60, there is also a long-range 76-mm gun, but at the sixth level this is not enough. It knocks down planes, but every 10-15 seconds.

Torpedoes - We have very fast, but not long-range torpedoes. The damage from the side makes me happy, Tier 6 battleships take whole. It succeeds, but rarely. Take the aircraft carrier, dive onto the battleship that does not pay attention to you. Unfortunately, in order to get them to Aobe (one of the fastest cruisers in the game), coming straight towards you, you have to approach almost seven kilometers. Nicholas in this regard was more pleasing - there the torpedoes went more slowly and further, it was possible to throw on the move from inviz.

On average, I had 10-15 thousand land mines per battle, the same number of BBs, five thousand fires. The rest is torpedoes, one or two per battle. As a result, there is not much damage for the fifth level, and in order to knock this out, you have to go out of your way.

Perks - this is where I had a question. Or really, as suggested Vader_Kerensky, put on a disguise to increase the "inviz corridor" and pray to Poseidon that there is no YapEM on this flank, but then there are not enough points for two "fours". Or, nevertheless, to increase the firing range at the expense of the OPS to the detriment of efficiency. As for me, both options are comfortable, since:

1) in principle, few people shoot at a maneuvering destroyer at a distance of 9+, I generally keep quiet about the percentage of hits. And in the first version, you can take a couple of second-level perks for delivery, for example, ArtTerm or the Master of Torpedo Weapons.

2) But on the other hand, in the second option, we also get a bunch of useful, but expensive skills: Explosives technician, From the last bit of strength. And without the first one, for example, it's hard for me to imagine how to inflict damage on Battleships. And the shooting corridor is much higher than in the first one.

Oh, and the third perk is still an indent. On Ognevoe I developed a bad habit of living for a long time. And since we are ArtEsminers, smoke and fosage (even non-gold ones) are never superfluous.

The cruiser "Königsberg" was in the same situation as the "Emden" only in East Africa - one against the whole world. The captain of the "Königsberg" was Captain 2nd Rank von Loof. He was Alsatian and was born there three years later, after Alsace passed from France to Germany as a result of the Franco-Prussian war. Alsace passed from France to Germany and back many times. Now it is, by the way, the territory of France, during the First World War - Germany. The Alsatians in Germany were not considered French, but they were not considered Germans either. But for von Loof, this was not the question - he considered Germany his homeland. Off the coast of East Africa, unlike Southeast Asia, where Emden fought, there are not so many islands and shelters for a lone cruiser, or rather, there are none at all. In the evening, before the outbreak of the First World War, "Königsberg" fled from Dar es Salaam from the British and French to start the war.

Let's omit the period when Königsberg sank the merchant ships of the British, and let's start with this - at one point the cruiser's engine broke down. The place where the cruiser could dock and do repairs was not around 1000 miles. Maybe 5000 - it doesn't matter. But there was an unexplored delta of the Rufiji River. Von Loof boldly enters one of the 12 large sleeves of Rufiji "Konigsberg" and goes along it 10 miles deep into the continent. to make repairs to a multi-ton engine, is located in Dar es Salaam, which is 120 kilometers from the Rufiji delta.

This does not bother von Loof. He orders to cut down the largest coconut palms in the area and make giant sleds from their trunks. These sleds are loaded with a multi-ton engine from the cruiser and spare parts for it. 200 hired natives are "harnessed" to the sleigh and they drag this load 120 kilometers to Dar es Salaam. There the engine is repaired and on the same sleigh, again 120 kilometers, the natives pull it back. During this time, the British managed to find the Königsberg parking lot with incredible efforts, but only at an approximate level - according to the documents, the exact place was unknown, because Loof did not sit idly by - the sailors disguised the ship so that it could not be seen even from the ground, they raised spare guns and machine guns from the holds and created a real fortified area at the mouth of Rufiji - ship guns, machine-gun nests stood on the banks, and all this was entangled in a network of telegraph wires.

The British were very much afraid that Königsberg would be able to escape through the labyrinths of canals and rivulets back to the ocean (they did not know about the engine breakdown and that the cruiser had no coal), and therefore pulled the entire fleet that was in the area here. They had to patrol an area of ​​64 miles of the mouth of the Rufiji and 400 miles of the entire area to prevent Koenigsberg from leaving. From now on, all British and allied ships are here. Since the British did not know exactly where the ship was, then on small ships the British soldiers set off at the mouth with a massive landing - so they learned that all the banks of the mouth were already an excellent fortified area with coastal guns and machine guns mowing down tightly.

To prevent Koenigsberg from escaping, the British drown a coal refueller in the fairway of one of the branches - an unnecessary steamer and begin to guard it - so that the Germans do not clear the channel again. But very soon it turned out that the sacrifice by the tanker was in vain - there are a million plus one sleeves here and Koenigsberg will be able to go to sea along any of them.

There was only one person in the whole world who spoke one of the European languages, who was at the mouth of Rufija and knew how everything works there - this is the famous hunter and traveler Praetorius. The English battleship takes off and begins to search all over the world for this Pretorius, he is found somewhere at the end of the world, in the conditional Patagonia, and dragged to East Africa. On board the British flagship, he is tasked with conducting reconnaissance and giving the exact coordinates of Konigsberg in these malaria swamps and canals. Pretorius fulfills the task and gives the British the exact coordinates of the ship and by measuring the depth of the mouth of the Pretorius reports - judging by the draft of Konigsberg, there is absolutely no coal on it.

Loof, noticing that the British shells began to land closer to the ship, starts the repaired engine and ... leaves another 8 miles further along the mouth of this river. The British are discharging an airplane with a pilot from the Island. The plane flies to reconnaissance and ... can not find anything. After the third flight, the pilot manages to find the place of Koenigsberg's new anchorage, but is shot down. A boat of English sailors, a boat of German sailors and a herd of crocodiles rush to the place of the fall - the British win the speed swim. The pilot gives the British admiral the exact location of the new anchorage of Koenigsberg, but the admiral does not believe. It is impossible for a cruiser to go so far along such a shallow and narrow channel.
They write out another plane and the pilot is already flying with the admiral - the admiral is convinced that the pilot was right, but it is not clear what to do - for several months the entire English squadron has not been able to pick one German cruiser out of these swamps.

Meanwhile, the Admiralty in London recalls that by order of the Brazilian government to patrol the Orinoco and Amazon rivers, they built two monitors - a draft of 1.5 meters, armor and very good cannons. The Brazilians have not yet had time to buy these monitors and an order is flying from London across the ocean to deliver the monitors to Dar es Salaam! And monitors with a 1.5 meter draft again twig across the oceans to the coast of East Africa.

Meanwhile, a coal tanker under the Danish flag disguised as a timber carrier is flying by sea to help Koenigsberg from Germany. He breaks through three rings of the British naval blockade in Europe, through ocean storms and storms, and now he is near the mouth of Rufiji. Then they knock him out, but the sailors set fire to the forest on the upper deck, which was masking the cargo. Seeing a huge column of flame, the British believe that the business is over with the tanker, they leave, and the Germans dump the burning forest into the ocean, extinguish something and reload weapons, cannons and cartridges onto boats and take everything to Koenigsberg.
But the coal cannot be overloaded to Konigsberg and Loof is preparing for the last battle - Koenigsberg is doomed.
The Germans install torpedo tubes on the traveling parahodik "Vami" in order to destroy the monitors from them, but "Vami" throws them onto the rocks when they exit the mouth. Then Loof calculates that the monitors will rise along the mouth only to the island and arranges a network of correction points and sites there.
The next day, the monitors come up to the mouth only up to the island and there they are met by heavy fire from coastal batteries - the Danish parahodian helped - and the British thought that the coastal fortifications had already been suppressed. A day later, the monitors still enter the mouth, but rise again only to the island, where they are covered by the precise fire of six guns from Koenigsberg. One monitor is damaged by an accurate hit under the waterline and the British retreat.
On the third day, the monitors first suppressed the German positions of the fire adjustment near the island, and then began shelling the cruiser. Out of 635 shots from the monitors, 6 were hit by Königsberg. The first shot killed two brave Germans - Helfferich and Appel. They arrived at Königsberg a couple of weeks before the assault, having sailed from Mozambique, full of danger, by boat.

But after 6 hits, Königsberg is already a heap of iron, which still resisted. To improve the accuracy of hits, the British are organizing exercises in the ocean on the interaction of the aircraft and monitors - the aircraft adjusts the fire, and the monitors beat. And on the fourth day, both monitors enter the mouth of the Rufija with the support of aviation - one British aircraft. This time, both monitors at once receive an accurate hit from the Germans, and such that one of them did not budge, and the other one fired back at anchor for an hour while the repair was underway. And then he moved towards the German cruiser.
By mid-afternoon, Königsberg was over. The British left. Loof returned to the wrecked cruiser the next day. All the guns were removed, the ammunition was taken away and the Germans set up the next fortified areas already on Lake Tanganyika and in Dar es Salaam. The war continued. But that's another story about which later. Koenigsberg, locked without coal in the swamps of the mouth of the Rufiji River, pinned down the entire British and allied squadron for a little more than eight (!!!) months.

Returning to the North Sea, the cruiser took part in the second battle of Helgoland on 11/17/1917. The only thing that distinguished the "Frankfurt" was a torpedo salvo at the British cruisers, which, however, did not bring success. This was the last combat clash of "Frankfurt". After the conclusion of the truce, the cruiser was interned at Scapa Flow. 6/21/1919 during the sinking of the ships of the Open Sea Fleet, he was still saved by the British.

In July 1919, it was transferred to the United States. After crossing the ocean and studying the design of the ship, the Americans decided to use it to conduct experiments in aerial bombardment. 07/18/1921 during the next bombing "Frankfurt" sank at Cape Henry on the coast of Virginia.

The death of the ship was filmed, and now these shots are very popular among filmmakers, who for some reason pass them off as the Battle of Jutland or, in general, for any battles of the first and sometimes the second world war.

Light cruiser "Konigsberg"

1913 program [* All ships in this series are named after the cruisers who died in the war.].

Displacement: 5440 tons (project), 7125 tons (full).

Dimensions: 151.4x14.3x6.0 m.

Mechanisms: 2 naval turbines, 12 boilers (10 coal, 2 oil).

Power: 31,000 hp with. Speed: 27.5 knots Fuel reserves: coal - 1340 tons, oil - 500 tons.

Cruising range: 4850 miles / 12 knots.

Reservations: see type "Magdeburg".

Armament: see type "Wiesbaden".

Crew: 475 people (17 officers, 458 sailors).

"Königsberg" Built at the Weser shipyard (Bremen). Laid down in 1914, launched on 12/18/1915, entered the fleet on 8/12/1916. Was included in the second reconnaissance group.

The first major operation of the cruiser was participation in the capture of the Moonsund Islands. "Konigsberg" covered the landing in the Taga-Lakht bay, but did not take part in battles with Russian ships. 11/17/1917 participated in the second battle of Helgoland. Was hit by a 380mm round from the newest British battle cruiser Ripals. The shell pierced all three chimneys of the "Konigsberg" and penetrated through the upper deck into the coal pit, squeezed out its internal bulkhead, exploded there and started a fire. The cruiser managed to get out of the battle and get to the base. After repairs, he returned to the fleet, but the war soon ended. On 20/07/1920 in Cherbourg, "Königsberg" was transferred to France and until 1933 was part of its fleet under the name "Metz". In 1936 it was dismantled for metal in Brest.

Karlsruhe Built at the naval shipyard in Wilhelmshaven. Laid down in 1915, launched on 1/31/1916, entered the fleet on 12/23/1916.

As part of the second reconnaissance group, he took part in the operation to seize the Moonsund Islands and in the second battle at Heligoland. After the conclusion of the armistice "Karlsruhe" was interned in Scapa Flow and sunk by the crew on 21 June 1919. Raised in 1962 and dismantled for metal.

Emden Built at the Weser shipyard (Bremen). Laid down in 1914, launched on 1.2.1916, entered the fleet on 16.12.1916. Was the flagship of the destroyer flotilla.

External view of light cruisers of the "Konigsberg" type (1918).

He took part in the capture of the Moonsund Islands. At noon 10/11/1917 as part of the main force "Emden" headed north. The cruiser went into the wake of the flagship battle cruiser Moltke, followed by the battleships of the fourth brigade under the command of Vice Admiral Souchon. 10/12/1917 "Emden" together with the best battleship of Germany "Bayern" crushed the battery at Cape Toffrey. But "Bayern" was soon blown up by a mine and retreated. On the same day, the cruiser provided assistance to its destroyers and minesweepers, which were attacked by the Russian destroyers General Kondratenko and Pogranichnik.

Later, "Emden" entered into battle with Russian ships, which prevented the breakthrough of German destroyers to the Kassarsky reach. After a two-hour skirmish, the Germans withdrew. On October 13-14, "Emden" together with the battleship "Kaiser" fought with Russian ships, during which the Russian destroyer "Grom" was sunk. After the capture of the Moonsund Islands, the cruiser was transferred to the North Sea.

11/12/1917 "Emden" ensured the passage of the second flotilla of destroyers, directed to attack the Scandinavian convoys. After a successful raiding, the destroyers were again met by the cruiser.

Following the armistice, the ship is interned at Scapa Flow. During the "great flooding" on 6/21/1919 he was pulled out into shallow water, and he remained intact. 03/11/1920 was transferred to France, but due to poor technical condition, it was not included in its fleet, but was used after studying the design for testing. In 1926 it was dismantled for metal.

Nuremberg Built at the Hawaldswerke plant in Kiel. Laid down in 1915, launched on 4/14/1916, entered the fleet on 2/15/1917.

As part of the second reconnaissance group, he participated in the Moonsund landing operation. Accompanied the fourth transport group, covered the landing in the Taga-Lakht bay. In the second Battle of Heligoland, he was the flagship of the second reconnaissance group, actively supporting the minesweepers' connection.

After the conclusion of the truce, he was interned at Scapa Flow. During self-flooding, the High Seas Fleet was pulled out onto the beach. Subsequently transferred to the UK and used for various experiments and as a target. 7/7/1922 sank off the Isle of Wight.

Light cruiser "Cologne"

[* Cruisers of this type were built to compensate for military losses. A fairly large series was planned, but only two cruisers entered service. They became the last cruisers of the Kaiser's fleet.].

Displacement: 5620 tons (project), 7486 tons (full).

Dimensions: 155.5x14.3x6.0 m.

Mechanisms: 2 naval turbines, 14 boilers (8 coal, 6 oil).

Power: 31,000 hp with. Speed: 27.5 knots.

Fuel stock: coal - 1100 tons, oil - 1050 tons.

Cruising range: 5400 miles / 12 knots.

Reservations: see type "Magdeburg"

Armament: 8 - 150-mm, 3 - 88-mm (zeniths.), 4 TA - 600-mm (deck.), 120 min.

External view of light cruisers of the "Cologne" type (1918).

Cologne Built at the Blom und Voss shipyard (Hamburg). Laid down in 1915, launched on 10/05/1916, entered the fleet on 01/17/1918. The first commander was Captain 2nd Rank Erich Raeder - the future commander-in-chief of the Kriegsmarine. The cruiser did not take an active part in the hostilities. He made several patrols and to escort submarines. After the conclusion of the truce, he was interned at Scapa Flow. 9/21/1919 flooded by the crew.

Dresden Built at the Hovaldswerke plant in Kiel. Laid down in 19 * 16, launched on 25/04/1917, entered the fleet on 28/03/1918. He did not take an active part in hostilities. Interned at Scapa Flow. Scuttled by the crew on 6/21/1919.

Unfinished Cologne-class cruisers and their fate