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Panther 1895 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Panther		480	Armstrong, Elswick, UK	29.10.1884	13.6.1885	31.12.1885	TS 1917, accommodation ship 1918
Leopard		481	Armstrong, Elswick, UK	1/1885	10.9.1885	31.3.1886	accommodation ship 5.1914

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1557
Displacement full, t
Length, m	73.2 oa 71.4 wl
Breadth, m	10.4
Draught, m	4.28
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VC, 6 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	Panther: 5940 Leopard: 6380
Max speed, kts	Panther: 18.4 Leopard: 18.7
Fuel, t	coal 200
Endurance, nm(kts)	2800(10)
Armour, mm	steel; deck: 12
Armament	2 x 1 - 120/31 G. L/35 C.87, 4 x 1 - 47/40 SFK L/44 H, 6 x 5 - 47/22 SFK L/25 H, 4 - 350 TT (1 bow, 2 beam, 1 stern)
Complement	186

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Project history

These two small cruisers (officially called torpedo ram cruisers) were ordered in England to gain experience in modern shipbuilding techniques. They, and their enlarged successor Tiger, were obsolete by the beginning of the First World War and their main armament was removed in 1909/10.

Ship protection

Steel deck had 12mm thickness.

Modernizations

1909, Panther: was armed with 4 x 1 - 66/40 SFK L/42

10/1910, Leopard: was armed with 10 x 1 - 47/40 SFK L/44 H

Naval service

Panther was attached in 1917 lo the submarine commanders' school at Cattaro as a seagoing training ship. Leopard was decommissioned 15.5.1914 and used as harbour defence ship at Pola. Both were allocated as war reparation to Great Britain, but sold to Italy and scrapped there in 1920.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.