Light Cruiser

STRASSBURG
"Breslau-class"
Sister-ship: Breslau, Magdeburg and Stralsund.

Laid down at Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven 1910.
Commissioned: October 1912

Displacement:	4,362 tonnes (4,915 full load)
Length:	130.5 m
Beam:	14 m
Draught:	5.48 m
Propulsion:	2 shaft Navy turbines
Speed:	27 knots (50 km/h)
Complement:	354
Armament:	12 × 105 mm (4.1 in) SKL/ 45cal (8 × 1), 2 × 500 mm (19.7 in) TT, 120 mines

Service history: Within weeks of the outbreak of World War I, she was damaged in the first Battle of Heligoland Bight on 28 August 1914. Following the German defeat in World War I, Strassburg was ceded to Italy as a war prize. Strassburg served in the Regia Marina as Taranto until she was sunk by air attack in 1944.

KONIGSBERG
"Konigsberg (II)-class"
Sister-ship: Karlsruhe, Nurnberg and Emden.

Laid down at A.G. Weser, Bremen Aug. 1914
Completed 18 Dec. 1918.
Stricken 15 Nov. 1919.

Displacement: 5,440 tons normal
7,125 tons full load

Length: 151.4 m

Beam: 14.2 m

Draft: 6.14 m

Speed: 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h)

Crew: 475

Armament: 8 x 150mm (5.9in) SKL/ 45cal (1 x 2),
2 x 88mm (2 x 1),
4 x 500mm (19.7in) TT,
200 mines

Armour: 60 mm in the belt and 40 mm on deck

Service history: 20 July 1920 Deliverd at Cherbourg, to France as war indemnity and renamed METZ.
1936 Scrapped at Brest.

KONIGSBERG (Left) & GRAUDENZ (Right)
Graudens: "Regensburg"-class, 1920 transferred to to Italian Navy and renamed ANCONA
Postcard dated "Wilhelmshaven 1919."