Laid down: 12/4/26
Commissioned: 17/4/29
Full Load Displacement: 8,130 tons
Draft: 20.6 ft
Speed: 32.5 kts
Range: 3,100 nautical miles at 13 kts
Armor: 50mm side, 40mm deck
Armament: 9x 150mm (120 rpg), 2x 88mm (400 rpg), 8x 37mm (1200 rpg), 8x 20mm (2200 rpg), 12x 533mm torpedoes tubes, 120 mines, 2 floatplanes.

Konigsberg was used during the first month of the war to lay mines in the North Sea but then spent most of the next six months in the dockyard at Kiel. With the light cruiser Nurnberg and four torpedo boats she did escort four destroyers back from minelaying off the coast of England on Nov. 13, 1939. In early 1940 four 88mm weapons were added to her AA outfit.

At Kiel on April 7, 1940 the Konigsberg embarked 735 troops, mostly from the 159" Regiment, for the invasion of Norway and departed with the light cruiser Koln and the training ship Bremse. They were joined at sea the next day by two torpedo boats, five S-boats, a tender, and two auxiliaries forming the group to land at Bergen. Although she successfully disembarked her troops on April 9, Konigsberg was damaged by three 210mm shells from Norwegian coastal defenses which flooded one boiler room. Later the same day she was attacked unsuccessfully by 12 Wellingtons and 12 Hampdens of the RAF. Next day, Konigsberg, still tied up at dock in Bergen, was attacked by 15 Fleet Air Arm Skuas flying from the Orkneys and sank after three bomb hits and several near misses.

More WWII German Light Cruisers

Introduction
Emden
Konigsberg
Karlsruhe
Koln
Leipzig
Nurnberg