![]() SMS Leopard
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History | |
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Name |
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Namesake | 1912: the valley of Yarrow Water |
Owner | Mackill Steamship Co |
Operator |
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Port of registry | 1912: ![]() |
Builder | Wm Dobson & Co, Walker |
Yard number | 178 |
Launched | 3 May 1912 |
Completed | June 1912 |
Commissioned | into German Navy: 9 January 1917 |
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Captured | by SMS Möwe, 11 December 1916 |
Fate | sunk by gunfire, 16 March 1917 |
General characteristics | |
Type | cargo ship |
Tonnage | 4,652 GRT, 2,914 NRT |
Displacement | 9,800 tons |
Length | 390.2 ft (118.9 m) |
Beam | 52.0 ft (15.8 m) |
Depth | 26.6 ft (8.1 m) |
Decks | 2 |
Installed power | 429 NHP |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h) |
Complement | as auxiliary cruiser: 319 |
Armament |
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SMS Leopard was a British cargo steamship that was built in 1912 as Yarrowdale, captured in 1916 by the Imperial German Navy, converted into a commerce raider in Germany, and sunk with all hands by the Royal Navy in 1917.
Yarrowdale's British operator was Robert Mackill & Co of Glasgow, who gave this name to at least three different ships. This was the second of the three.
Leopard was the last commerce raider that Germany sent out in the First World War. After the Royal Navy sank her, Germany relied entirely on U-boats to sink Allied merchant ships.