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Sunday 10 February 2019

German gunboat SMS Jaguar was launched at Danzig according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1898-1899 no. 9

An item referred to the magazine Le Yacht reporting that the German gunboat Jaguar was launched at Danzig. Loaded with 160 ton coal had she a displacement of 935 ton. Speed 13,5 miles. The armament consisted of 4-10cm guns, 4-7,5cm guns and 2 machineguns.(1)

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1. Laid down by Schichau-Werke, Danzig with yard number 231 in begin 1898, launched on 19 September 1898. Commissioned on 4 April 1899. Scuttled on 7 November 1914 at the German colony in the Klautschou-Bay concession in China to prevent capture by the Japanese forces. Of the Iltis-class consisting of the Iltis, Jaguar, Luchs, Tiger, Eber and Panther