DESTRUCTOR
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 4:23 pm
Built as a torpedo boat destroyer under yard No. 234 by the yard J & G Thomson, Clydebank for the Spanish Navy.
1885 Keel laid down.
29 July 1886 launched under the name DESTRUCTOR or sometimes named El DESTRUCTOR.
Displacement 385 tons. Full load 458 tons. Dim. 200 x 25 x 8ft. (draught)
Powered by two sets triple expansion steam engines, 3.800 ihp., speed during trials 22.5 knots. Twin screws. Radius 1800 mile, nominal radius of 5500 mile. Full coal bunker capacity 110 tons.
Armament: 1 – 9cm BL gun, 4 – 6pdrs. QF, and 2 Hotchkiss RC and 3 – 15inch torpedo tubes.
Crew 45.
1887 Completed, and handed over to Spain on 19 January 1887.
The Spanish Navy Officer Fernando Villaamil 1845-1898 designed her. He supervised the building of the new vessel in the U.K.
24 January 1887 she sailed from Falmouth under the command of Villaamil and bound for Vigo in Spain, 24 hours later she sighted the Spanish coast, making 18 knots average during the voyage, and stormy weather in the Bay of Biscay.
1911 Discarded.
Spain 1964 3p sg 1670, scott 1258
Source: Warship for Export by Peter Brook, and some web-sites.