What Navy commissioned the Metel, a fast naval ship carring torpedoes?
Metel ""Metel"" (from Russian: "Метель" - "Blizzard") was a Guards Torpedo boat, Storm class, of the Soviet Navy. Commissioned in 1934, it was attached to the Pacific Fleet. During World War II the ship fought mainly against the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Far East. On August 26, 1945 it acquired guards status and the ship's commander, Captain-Lieutenant L. N. Balyakin, was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union on September 14.
SMS Panther (1885) SMS "Panther" was a torpedo cruiser ("Torpedoschiff") of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. She and her sister ship, "Leopard" were part of a program to build up Austria-Hungary's fleet of torpedo craft in the 1880s. She was the lead ship of her class, and was built in Britain by Armstrong, from her keel laying in October 1884 to her completion in December 1885. She was armed with a battery of two 12 cm guns and ten 47 mm guns, along with four 356 mm torpedo tubes.