_Wolf_ carried two six-inch ordinary guns, one mounted forward under the forecastle head and the other on top of the poop; four 4.7 ordinaries, two forward and two aft mounted on the well deck. The bulwark or rails at these guns, as at the six-inch forward gun, were fitted with hinges and spring catches, so that by one blow of a hammer they dropped down, giving the guns ample room for action. Under ordinary circumstances nothing of these guns could be seen above the rail. She was further armed with four torpedo tubes, two forward and two aft, on the well decks. The torpedoes forward were "Red Heads" and especially effective for short distances, while those aft were "Mannlichers" and used for long distance work. She also had four machine guns mounted, two on each end of the boat deck in such a manner that they could control the decks and the prisoners' quarters aft. On leaving Kiel _Wolf_ had a crew of three hundred and seventy-five men, including one Commander and Corvette Captain, one Lieutenant Commander, three senior and six junior Lieutenants, two Surgeons and twelve Warrant Officers, including gun mechanics, torpedo mechanics, mine experts, navigating sub-lieutenants and boatswains. She had a wireless crew of seven men, including one wireless expert. The signal corps consisted of six signal men in charge of a code expert, who had had several years of training at a school in deciphering various codes. I am led to believe from what I saw that this man was able to decipher naval and private codes used in the South Pacific, but was unable to handle codes used in the North Atlantic. On leaving Kiel _Wolf_ had on board five hundred mines, seventy-five hundred tons of Westphalian coal, three thousand tons of water, and twenty-five hundred tons of food and ammunition. This heavy cargo over-loaded the _Wolf_. I understand she was drawing over two feet more than her normal loaded draft when she left Kiel, and on getting safely through the blockade she encountered a very heavy series of gales in the North Atlantic, causing the vessel to labour heavily. This labouring strained her hull and topside and she dropped a good many rivets. As soon as she ran out of this bad weather repairs were made and all her topsides double riveted. Something like nine thousand rivets were driven, this work being done by her crew as the _Wolf_ proceeded down the Atlantic. Among her mechanics she seemed to have representatives from almost every trade, and apparently an inexhaustible supply of materials for making repairs or new additions to her equipment.