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Old Photographs German Light Cruiser Nurnburg Scapa Flow Scotland
Old photograph of the German Light Cruiser Nürnberg in Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Nürnberg was a Königsberg-class light cruiser built during World War I by Germany for the Imperial Navy. She saw relatively limited service during the war, due to her commissioning late in the conflict. She participated in Operation Albion in October 1917 against the Russian Navy in the Baltic. The following month, she was engaged in the Second Battle of Helgoland Bight, but was not significantly damaged during the engagement. She was assigned to the final, planned operation of the High Seas Fleet that was to have taken place in the closing days of the war, though a major mutiny forced the cancellation of the plan. After the end of the war, the ship was interned in Scapa Flow. In the scuttling of the German fleet in June 1919, British ships managed to beach Nürnberg and she was later refloated and sunk as a gunnery target in 1922.
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