German Cruiser Lützow (1939)

Lutzow was the fifth and last of the Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruisers for the Kriegsmarine. Laid down in 1937 and launched in 1939, she was sold in an incomplete state to the Soviet Union in 1940, missing half of her 8″ guns and most of her superstructure.

Renamed Petropavlovsk by the Soviets, work was still incomplete when Germany invaded. She aided in the defense of Leningrad, using her forward guns for artillery support. Badly damaged by German artillery and sunk by an air attack, she was refloated, repaired and renamed Tallinn, taking part in the counter-offensive to relieve Leningrad.

After the war, she was not completed and was used as a barracks ship, being renamed again, this time Dniepr in 1953. She was scrapped sometime in the 1960s.