Pantera class protected cruiser

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Pantera class Protected Cruiser
Class overview
Name Pantera class Protected Cruiser
Operators Far Eastern Imperial Navy
Planned 6
Built 6
Active 5
Destroyed 1
General Characteristics
Type Protected cruiser
Displacement
  • 5700 tons standard
  • 5960 tons full load
Length 130.6 metres (428 ft)
Beam 15.7 metres (52 ft)
Draught 5.8 metres (19 ft)
Propulsion 2 shafts, 2 VTE steam engines
Power
  • 24 Belleville boilers
  • 18,500 ihp (13,800 kW)
Speed 23 kts
Range 6100 nm at 10 kts
Complement 400
Armament
  • 12 × 152mm/45 KO 1893 g gun
  • 18 x 76.2mm/40 KO 1900 g gun
  • 8 x 37mm/40 KO 1893 g gun
  • 3 457mm torpedo tubes
Armour
  • Deck: 37-127 mm
  • conning tower: 152 mm

  • Development

    Pantera class protected cruisers were the first Far Eastern ships ordered from Great Britain, a move that was considered controversial in both ends due the hostile relations between the two nations. Origins of the project was the "For the need of the fleet" naval expansion program which was started after the Sino-Japanese war in 1895. The new fleet concept was based around battleships and new type of cruisers were needed for the fleet scouting and reconnaissance work. Initial plans were to build small armored cruisers but this was rejected on a cost basis. As the Far Eastern shipyards were already at full capacity, first two units were ordered from abroad. Tenders were send on various shipbuilders but eventually British Armstrong Whitworth-design was chosen.

    The ships are designed under Far Eastern requirements but is of a typical "Elswick" design. They feature flush deck hulls with considerable freeboard. They lacked armor belt but featured armored deck. First two were build in UK and the rest of the ships in domestic shipyards.

    Ships in class

    Name Builder Laid down Launch Date Entered Service Fate
    Pantera Armstrong, Elswick, UK October 1899 December 1900 November 1901 Sunk in 1904
    Bars Armstrong, Elswick, UK October 1899 December 1900 December 1901 Extant in 1920
    Gepard Amurskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod, Permskoye-na-Amure June 1900 September 1901 April 1903 Extant in 1920
    Yaguar Admiralteyskiye verf, Vladivostok April 1901 May 1902 August 1903 Extant in 1920
    Kuguar Novaya verf, Dalny May 1901 June 1902 September 1903 Extant in 1920
    Puma Novaya verf, Dalny May 1901 June 1902 October 1903 Extant in 1920


    See Also

    Ships of Far Eastern Imperial Navy 1920