KMS Emden - 1931 - German light cruiser : this 5.9 in vessel was Germany's first post WW1 major warship, entering service in the 1920s and constrained under the terms of that agreement to single gun mountings. She saw some action in the Norwegian campaign but spent much of the war in the Baltic on training duties till crippled by RAF bombers at Kiel in May 1945.
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