Name: | LEOPARD |
Type: | Torpedo Cruiser |
Keel: | 04/12/1884 |
Launched: | 10/09/1885 |
Completed: | 01/02/1886 |
Builder: | Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Elswick |
Yard Number: | 481 |
Dimensions: | 1552disp, 224.0 x 34.9 x 14.0(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2 x C2cyl (34 & 68 x ?ins), 4628ihp |
Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 18.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 2 x 1 x 12cm, 4 x 1 x 4.7cm guns; 4 x 1 x 14.0ins torpedoes |
History: | |
01/02/1886 | Austro-Hungarian Navy |
1920 | Broken up |
Comments: | Armament was provided by Krupp at Essen |
Designed to counter the threat of torpedo armed Destroyers | |
1920: At the end of WW1 she was ceded to the UK as war reparation | |
1920: Broken up at Messina, Italy, by Vaccaro & Co |
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