SMS Panther
| SMS Panther | |
| Career | KLM ensign |
|---|---|
| Name: | SMS Panther |
| Builder: | Kaiserliche Werft, Danzig |
| Laid down: | 1900 |
| Launched: | 1 April 1901 |
| Commissioned: | 15 March 1902 |
| Decommissioned: | 31 March 1931 |
| Fate: | Sold and scrapped 1931 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Iltis-class gunboat |
| Displacement: |
977 t (962 long tons) (designed) 1,193 t (1,174 long tons) (maximum) |
| Length: |
66.9 m (219 ft 6 in) o/a 64.1 m (210 ft 4 in) w/l |
| Beam: | 9.7 m (31 ft 10 in) |
| Draught: | 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in) |
| Propulsion: |
4 × charcoal steam boilers 2 × 3-cylinder steam engines (1344 psi) 2 × 3-blade 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in) propellers |
| Speed: | 13.5 knots (15.5 mph; 25.0 km/h) |
| Range: | 3,400 nmi (6,300 km) at 9 kn (10 mph; 17 km/h) |
| Complement: | 121 |
| Armament: |
• 2 × 105 mm (4 in) L/40 SK guns (range 12,200 m, 482 rounds) • 6 × 37 mm (1.5 in) cannons |
SMS Panther was one of six gunboats of the Iltis-class of the Kaiserliche Marine and, like her sister ships, served in Germany's overseas colonies. The ship was launched on 1 April 1901 in the Kaiserliche Werft, Danzig. She had a crew of 9 officers and 121 men.
Service history
In 1905, the Panther was deployed to the Brazilian Port of Itajahy, where her crew conducted an unauthorized search and the kidnapping of a German dissident on Brazilian soil. This incident became known as the "Panther Affair" ("Caso Panther").[1][2][3][4][5]
The Panther became notorious in 1911 when she was deployed to the Moroccan port of Agadir during the "Agadir Crisis" (also called the "Second Moroccan Crisis"). Germany did this because they wanted to reinforce their demand of the French for regions of French Equatorial Africa. This led to the term "gunboat diplomacy" which was used especially by the British. It involves, originally the deployment of a gunboat but now refers to any armed service, to a region to reinforce a request or demand made diplomatically. It can be said that this boat helped to increase the tension leading up to the First World War. The Panther was supposedly sent to protect German citizens in the port but actually piled pressure onto the French concerning their attempted colonization of Morocco.
The ship was scrapped in 1931.
See also
References
- ↑ Joffily, Jose (October 1988) (in Portuguese). O Caso Panther. Editora Paz e Terra.
- ↑ Seyferth, Giralda (November 1994) (in Portuguese). O Incidente do Panther (Itajai, SC, 1905). 4. Rio de Janeiro: Comunicacoes do PPGAS.
- ↑ Guedes, Max Justo (2002) (in Portuguese) (PDF). O Barao do Rio Branco e a Modernizacao da Defesa. Rio Branco - a America do Sul e a Modernizacao do Brasil. Fundacao Alexandre de Gusmao. pp. 314–315. http://www.funag.gov.br/biblioteca-digital/biografias-e-memorias. Retrieved 2006.
- ↑ Fauchille, Paul (1906) [1894] (in French) (PDF). Revue Generale de Droit International Public. Droit de Gens - Histoire Diplomatique - Droit Penal - Droit Fiscal - Droit Administratif. 13. Paris: A. PEDONE, Libraire-Editeur. pp. 200–206. http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/Visualiseur?Destination=Gallica&O=NUMM-73481. Retrieved 2006.
- ↑ Millarch, Aramis (October 1988). "A noite em que a Alemanha invadiu o porto de Itajai" (in Portuguese). http://www.millarch.org/ler.php?id=772. Retrieved 2006.
External links
- SMS Panther - Kanonenboot der Kaiserlichen Marine (German)
- Chronique des Faits Internationaux (Allemagne et Bresil) 200-206 (French)
- A noite em que a Alemanha invadiu o porto de Itajai (Portuguese)
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