Light Cruiser Frankfurt, The North Sea, Saturday, 4 December 1948
After a pleasant visit on the Nordish port of Trondheim the
Frankfurt and her consorts began their return voyage to Wilhelmshaven. They were scheduled to participate in a refuelling exercise north of Heligoland before completing their voyage – and Wattenberg was concerned that the winter weather might interfere. The weather forecasts he received suggested that there would be a sufficient margin of safety but he enjoined his aerographers to maintain a close watch as the time for rendezvous approached.
Die Welt Am Sonntag, Sunday, 5 December 1948
The second season of archaeological exploration in the Sheikdom of Bahrain, an island in the Persian Gulf, has yielded important discoveries that open new vistas of understanding. Professors Hans Bessig and Rolf Hachmann of the University of Marburg (top left) were this year joined by Doctor Henry Jones (top right) of Marshall College in the United States. Doctor Jones’ intuition led him to investigate the mound upon which stood an old Portuguese Fort, and discovered the buried remains of no less than seven cities (bottom left) dating back to early Sumerian times. Doctor Jones believes that this city could be Alexander’s Haven, mentioned in Arrian’s narrative of the accomplishments of Alexander the Great, while the earliest levels might be associated with the legendary Dilmun, a place recorded in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
The work of Bessig, Hachmann, and their team, has permitted the theoretical reconstruction of a temple complex (bottom right) associated with the great mound fields of Bahrain. The artefacts recovered at Barbar date the complex to the Sumerian period. The discoveries to date will require many additional years of investigation and examination.
Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Monday, 6 December 1948
The light cruiser
Nürnberg was completed today at the Deschimag yard at Bremerhaven while her sister
Leipzig was delivered by the Kiel naval dockyard. Both ships will spend the next weeks on builders’ trials before beginning operational training in the Baltic.