List of ships with the name Leipzig

Leipzig is a name often used by ships. It is derived from the Saxon city of Leipzig , which is one of the largest cities in Germany .

Ship list

designation	Ship type	Class / type	Construction year	Shipyard	Owner	period of service	Whereabouts
Leipzig	Ship of the line	Leipzig- class ship of the line	1816	GS Isakov, Saint Petersburg	Imperial Russian Navy	1816 to 1824	1824 Hulk
Leipzig	Covered corvette	Leipzig class	1875	AG Vulcan , Szczecin	Imperial Navy	1877 to 1893	Wrecked in 1921
Leipzig	Small cruiser	Bremen class	1905	AG Weser , Bremen	Imperial Navy	1906 to 1914	Sunk on December 8, 1914 during the naval battle near the Falkland Islands
Leipzig	Small cruiser	Cöln class	1918	AG Weser, Bremen	Imperial Navy	not completed	Wrecked unfinished in 1921
Leipzig	Paddle steamer		1929	Laubegast shipyard , Dresden	Saxon steamship	since 1929
Leipzig	Light cruiser	Leipzig class	1929	Reichsmarinewerft , Wilhelmshaven	Imperial / Navy	1931 to 1945	Sunk on July 20, 1946
Leipzig	General cargo ship	Braunschweig class	1954	Flender-Werke , Lübeck	HAPAG	1954 to 1970	Sold in 1970 and renamed Harappa , scrapped in Gadani Beach from February 1975
Leipzig	General cargo ship	Type IV	1959	Warnowwerft , Warnemünde	German shipping company	1959 to 1980	Sold in 1980 and renamed Saudi Trader , scrapped in 1986
Leipzig	Semi-container ship	Type Meridian II	1980	Warnowwerft, Warnemünde	Deutfracht / Rostock shipping company	1980 to 1993	scrapped from December 11, 2008

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↑ Leipzig
^ Witthöft, Hans Jürgen: HAPAG . Hamburg-America Line. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 1973, ISBN 3-7822-0087-X .
^ German shipping companies Volume 23 VEB Deutsche Seereederei Rostock page 286.