SMS Wolf (formerly the Hansa freighter Wachtfels) was an armed merchant raider or auxiliary cruiser of the Imperial German Navy in World War I.

Several warships of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) have been named SMS Wolf: SMS Wolf (1860), a gunboat of the Jäger class; SMS Wolf (1878), a gunboat of the Wolf class; SMS Wolf (1906), an auxiliary cruiser; SMS Wolf (1916), an auxiliary cruiser

SMS Wolf mined, captured and sunk allied shipping during a round trip voyage from Germany lasting from November 30, 1916 to February 24, 1918. After a year at sea, accompanied by the captured Spanish steamer Igotz Mendi, she headed back to Germany.

SMS Wolf was the lead ship of the Wolf class of steam gunboats built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the 1870s. The ship was ordered as part of a construction program intended to begin replacing the old Jäger-class gunboats that had been built a decade earlier.

In a continuous 64,000-mile voyage lasting fifteen months, the commerce-raider SMS Wolf caused havoc across three oceans, launched Germany’s only direct attacks on Australia and New Zealand in the Great War and captured over 400 men, women and children.

2018年6月28日 · Early in World War I, when the British Royal Navy bottled up its big warships in harbor, Germany turned to merchant raiders like SMS Wolf to disrupt Allied shipping. (Illustration by Paul Wright; German Commerce Raiders, 1914–1918, New …

SMS Wolf was a converted cargo vessel of the Hansa Line of Bremen, previously named Wachtfels, and commissioned into the Imperial German Navy, under the command of Corvetten-Kapitän Karl August Nerger. It was a single screw ship, built at Flensberg in 1913, displacing 5809 tons, with a top speed of 11 knots.

SMS Wolf (formerly the Hansa freighter Wachtfels) was an armed merchant raider or auxiliary cruiser of the Imperial German Navy in World War I. She was the fourth ship of the Imperial Navy bearing this name (and is therefore often referred to in …

Taken over by Kaiserliche Marine in 1916 and renamed SMS Wolf. She made a very successful cruise under the command of Fregattenkapitan Karl August Nerger departing from Kiel 30 Nov 1916. She laid mines off Cape Town, Colombo, Bombay, Australia and New Zealand, which eventually sank 13 freighters.

On November 30, 1916 Wolf departed Kiel with a crew of 348 men. Initially escorted by a SM UU-66 (U-66) submarine from Skagerrak to the North Atlantic, she passed north of Scotland, around Iceland and south down the Atlantic Ocean then around the Cape of Good Hope, where she laid some sea mines, then crossed into the Indian Ocean.