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PANTHER protected cruisers (1885-1886)


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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, mmsteel; 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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<i>Panther </i>1886
Panther 1886


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<i>Panther </i>1895 <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>
Panther 1895 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.


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.