Köln

Type:
Cruiser
Class:
Builder:
Reichsmarinewerft
Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Pennant Number:
N/A
Ordered:
N/A
Launched:
May 23, 1928
Keel Laid:
August 7, 1926
Commissioned:
January 15, 1930
Fate:
Scrapped in 1956.

(Previously sunk in shallow water at Wilhelmshaven, Germany by U.S. bombers of the
8th Air Force on Mar. 30, 1945. The ship's guns were above water and it was used as
an artillery battery until the end of the war.)


Builder's Data
Page published Apr. 8, 2019