1) These are the design figures.  "German Warships 1815-1945" says that the actual outfit for Leipzieg and Nürnberg ranged from 120 up to 167 rounds.  Given the large size differences between these two ships, I would suspect that Leipzieg would tend towards the low end of this range while Nürnberg would tend towards the upper end.

2) Outfit included APC, base fuze HE and nose fuzed HE with and without tracer, plus 250 rounds of illumination for Nürnberg and 120 rounds of illumination for the earlier cruisers.  The book outfit for Nürnberg was 30 APC, 50 HE, base fuze and 70 HE, nose fuze.  Nürnberg had 16 ready use rounds stored in each gunhouse and a further 10 stored in each handling room.

3) The sources below disagree in several areas.  For the most part, the figures in this table are taken from "German Cruisers of World War Two."

4) APC and HE ballistic caps had a radius of 8.5 calibers.  The tangent of the ballistic cap to the shell body was inclined at 5 degrees, which resulted in a projectile with a short overall length.

5) Actual German projectile designations:
   APC:  15 cm Pzgr. L/3,7 (m.Hb)
   HE, base fuze:  15 cm Spgr. L/4,5 Bdz (m.Hb)
   HE, nose fuze:  15 cm Spgr. L/4,4 Kz (m.Hb)

Nürnberg:  324,410 lbs. (147,150 kg)

Nürnberg:  6 to 8 degrees per second

Nürnberg:  7.6 degrees per second

1) All three cruiser classes had three 3-gun turrets of nearly the same design.  The Königsberg and Leipzieg classes used the same turret but those on Nürnberg were slightly larger, had thicker frontal (8 cm vs. 3 cm) and rear armor (3.5 cm vs. 2 cm) and slightly more powerful elevation and training motors, which accounts for the weight and speed differences.

2) The after two turrets on the Königsberg class were offset to allow for better machinery arrangements.  The turrets on Leipzieg and Nürnberg were all on the center line.

3) Power to these turrets was part electric, part hydraulic with hand loading and ramming.  The magazines were directly under the armored deck, with shells and cartridges stowed in the same spaces.  Shells and cartridges were manually carried to the revolving trunk where they were passed through hand throughs which were vertical scuttles holding the shell in the upper chamber and the cartridge in the lower chamber.  Each gun was provided with a chain hoist which ran directly between the magazine and guns and there were separate auxiliary bucket hoists at the rear of the main hoists.  Shells and cartridges were manually moved from the chain hoists to inclined ready trays and then manually loaded and rammed.  Each gun was fitted with its own individual gyroscopic firing gear thus eliminating laying errors at the gun.  Expended cartridge cases for the Drh Tr C/25 turrets were manually pushed out flap ports at the rear of the turret where they were caught by baskets attached to the outside of the turret.  The Drh Tr C/28 had an automatic case ejector system which ejected them through an opening in the rear of the turret floor.  Rubber mats on the decks below protected them from damage.  Each gunhouse had a crew of 15 men.  It is noted in "German Cruisers of World War Two" that the anti-flash arrangements were poor in these ships.

4) These mountings could make one complete revolution in either direction from the mid (fore and aft) position for a total of 720 degrees of train.  Firing arc was about -150 / +150 degrees.

5) Gun axes were 61 in (15.5 cm) apart.