German cruiser Lützow (Hipper class)
- German cruiser Lützow (Hipper class)
The "Lützow" was a German Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser. She was of the third group of this class and was named after Prussian general Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. .
"Lützow" was laid down at DeSchiMAG in Bremen on 8 February 1937 and launched 7 January 1939.
As a part of the 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact, "Lützow" was sold incomplete to the Soviet Union in 1939, where she was renamed "Petropavlovsk" and then "Tallinn". Incomplete when Germany invaded, she was re-equipped as a floating gun battery. After being shelled and bombed at Kronstadt Bay, near Leningrad, she sank. By 1943, she had been raised and renamed as "Tallinn" and used again for artillery support. Plans to complete her as a cruiser were abandoned for economic reasons (cost of repairing her were estimated at par with construction of a brand-new Kronshtadt class battlecruiser), and she was used as a static training ship until 1950, when she was scrapped.
The name "Lützow" was subsequently reused to rename the German pocket battleship Deutschland.
See also
* List of World War II ships
* List of Kriegsmarine ships
* List of naval ships of Germany
* List of ship launches in 1939
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