SMS Eber
Eber's sistership Jaguar
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 German Empire
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| Name: | Eber |
| Builder: | AG Vulcan Stettin |
| Laid down: | 1902 |
| Launched: | 6 June 1903 |
| Completed: | 1903 |
| Fate: | Scuttled, 16 October 1917 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Iltis-class gunboat |
| Displacement: | 1,193 metric tons (1,174 long tons) |
| Length: | 66.9 m (219.5 ft) |
| Beam: | 9.7 m (31.8 ft) |
| Draft: | 3.12 m (10.2 ft) |
| Installed power: | 1,300 ihp (970 kW) |
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| Speed: | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Complement: | 130 |
| Armament: | 2 × 1 - 105 mm (4.1 in) guns |
SMS Eber was the last of the six gunboats of the Iltis class of the German Imperial Navy prior to and during World War I. Other ships of the class are SMS Iltis, SMS Luchs, SMS Tiger, SMS Jaguar and SMS Panther. They were built between 1898 and 1903. All of them served primarily overseas, in the German colonies. Eber had a crew of 9 officers and 121 men.
Eber was 66.9 meters (219 ft) long overall and had a beam of 9.7 m (32 ft) and a draft of 3.54 m (11.6 ft) forward. She displaced 1,193 metric tons (1,174 long tons; 1,315 short tons) at full load. Her propulsion system consisted of a pair of vertical triple-expansion steam engines each driving a single screw propeller, with steam supplied by four coal-fired Thornycroft boilers. Eber could steam at a top speed of 14.3 knots (26.5 km/h; 16.5 mph) at 1,314 indicated horsepower (980 kW). The ship had a cruising radius of about 3,400 nautical miles (6,300 km; 3,900 mi) at a speed of 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph). She had a crew of between 9 officers and 121 enlisted men.Eber was armed with a main battery of two 10.5 cm (4.1 in) SK L/40 guns, with 482 rounds of ammunition. She also carried six machine guns.
The keel for Eber was laid down at the AG Vulcan in Stettin in 1902, much later than her five sister ships. She was launched on 6 June 1902 and commissioned into the German fleet on 15 September that year.
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