NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Wolf		3	KW Wilhelmshaven	1876	21.3.1878	10.1878	repair ship 2.1906
Hyäne		4	KW Wilhelmshaven	1876	27.6.1878	8.1879	despatch vessel 1898, guard ship 8.1914, despatch vessel 5.1916, stricken 4.1920
Iltis			KW Danzig	1877	18.9.1878	3.1880	foundered 23.7.1896

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	490
Displacement full, t	570
Length, m	47.2 oa 44.5 wl
Breadth, m	7.66
Draught, m	3.40
No of shafts	1, hoisting screw
Machinery	1 HSE, 2 rectangular boilers
Power, h. p.	340
Max speed, kts	8.5
Fuel, t	coal 95 - 112
Endurance, nm(kts)	1640(9)
Armament	2 x 1 - 125/21 RK L/23 C/78, 2 x 1 - 87/22 RK L/24 C/82, 3 x 5 - 37/27 RV L/30
Complement	85 - 106

Standard scale images

Project history

These iron-built colonial gunboats were an improved version of the Cyclop (1873) design. They sailed well with their barquentine rig, and were considered good seaboats.

Modernizations

1890s, Wolf: - 2 x 1 - 125/21, 1 x 1 - 87/22, 1 x 5 - 37/7; + 1 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92

Naval service

Hyäne was disarmed in 1897 and her rig reduced to steadying sails in 1905, by which time she was used as an accommodation ship. However, in 1914 she was used as a watch ship. Sold in 1920, she served as the three-masted schooner Seewolf (fitted with an auxiliary motor) until sunk in 1924. Iltis was lost in the China Sea 23.7.1896 during a storm. Wolf after use as a depot ship was broken up in 1919.