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About the video: Vizaar wrote: Karlsruhe, a 6000-ton Königsberg class light cruiser, was built at Kiel, Germany. Commissioned in November 1929, she spent much of the next several years on training cruises that took her to much of the World. During her 1931 cruise to the Americas she became the first German warship to visit New York City since prior to World War I. In mid-decade Karlsruhe patrolled off Spain during that nation's civil war. The frequently rough seas in that region revealed structural deficiencies in the ships of her type, causing her to be restricted to German waters until she could be strengthened.