An item reported that aircraft sighted on 16 August that the German light cruisers Nürnberg and Leipzig berthed at Swinemunde, Germany.
Notes
1. Of the Leipzig-class cruisers, preceded by Königsberg-class cruisers and to be succeeded by the planned M-class cruisers, building ordered in 1933, laid down by Deutsche werke, Kiel, Germany with yard number 234 on 4 November 1933, launched on 6 December 1934, commissioned on 2 November 1945, seized by the British in 1945, handed over as war reparations to the Soviet Union, taken over in December 1945, renamed Admiral Makarov and by 1960 broken up.
2. Of the Leipzig-class cruisers, preceded by Königsberg-class cruisers and to be succeeded by the planned M-class cruisers, laid down by Kriegsmarinewerft, Wilhelmshaven, Germany with yard number 117 on 28 April 1928, launched on 10 October 1929, commissioned on 8 October 1931, collided with Prinz Eugen in October 1944 and to have damaged to be worth to be fully repaired, after the Second World War ended was she used as a barracks ship for minesweeping forces until she was scuttled on 20 December 1946.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 251 dated 18 August 1942.


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