HMS Alcantara (left) and SMS Greif (right) dueling at close range during the action of 29 February 1916.
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History | |
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Germany | |
Name | Greif |
Builder | Neptun Werft, Rostock[1] |
Launched | 1914[1] |
Acquired | 1915[1] |
Commissioned | 23 January 1916[1] |
Fate | Sunk 29 February 1916 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 9,900 tons normal[1] |
Length | 131.7 m (432 ft)[1] |
Beam | 16.4 m (54 ft)[1] |
Draught | 7.5 m (25 ft)[1] |
Propulsion | Two coal-fired boilers, one 3,000 shaft horsepower (12 MW) 3-cylinder triple expansion reciprocating steam engine driving one propeller[1] |
Speed | 13 knots (24.1 km/h)[1] |
Range | 35,000 nautical miles (65,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)[1] |
Complement | 10 officers & 297 men[2] |
Armament | Four 15 cm (5.9 in) SK L/40 guns (4 × 1) with 600 rounds ammunition, one 10.5 cm (4.1 in) SK L/40 rapid-fire gun with 200 rounds ammunition, and two 50 cm (20 in) torpedo tubes with 12 torpedoes[3] |
SMS Greif was a German cargo steamship that was converted into a merchant raider for the Imperial German Navy.[1]