The Nürnberg, was a German Light Cruiser After WWII Nürnberg was transferred to the Soviet Union and renamed Admiral Makalrov
While covering minelaying operations off the British North Sea coast, the ship was torpedoed during the night of 12 / 13 Dec 1939 by HMS Salmon She was under repair until May 1940, and so missed the Norwegian Campaign. From July 1940 through January 1945, Nürnberg served either in and off Norway or in German home waters.
Assigned as a war prize to the Soviet Navy she was entered on the Soviet navy records on 5 Nov.1945. When the main boilers broke down in February 1957, she was re-classified a training cruiser and based at Kronstadt and, in February 1959, stricken from the navy records and scrapped.

Nurenberg at her surrender at Copenhagen