 The Spanish Navy's Destructor (1886)
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| History | |
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 Spain | |
| Name | Destructor |
| Ordered | 1885 |
| Builder | James and George Thomson of Clydebank, United Kingdom |
| Laid down | 14 November 1885 |
| Launched | 29 July 1886 |
| Commissioned | 19 January 1887 |
| Decommissioned | 1 January 1908 |
| Fate | Offered for sale, December 1911 and scrapped[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Displacement | 348 long tons (354 t) |
| Length | 58.74 m (192 ft 9 in) |
| Beam | 7.63 m (25 ft 0 in) |
| Draught | 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) |
| Propulsion | 2 triple-expansion engines 3,784 hp (2,822 kW) |
| Speed | 22.6 knots (26.0 mph; 41.9 km/h) |
| Range | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km) |
| Complement | 60 |
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Destructor was a 19th-century Spanish warship. She was a fast ocean-going torpedo gunboat and the main precursor of the destroyer type of vessel.[2] Destructor was the first warship classified as a "destroyer" at the time of her commissioning.[3][4][5][6] Her designer was a Spanish Navy officer, Fernando Villaamil, commissioned by the Minister of the Navy, Vice-Admiral Manuel Pezuela.
- ^ "Buques Viejos En Venta". ABC (in Spanish) (1 ed.). Madrid, Spain. 5 December 1911. p. 11. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Berniewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "El Destructor (...) was referred to as a destroyer in print at the time." Banbury, Philip (1971). Shipbuilders of the Thames and Medway. David and Charles, p. 300. ISBN 0-7153-4996-1
- ^ Smith, Charles Edgar: A short history of naval and marine engineering. Babcock & Wilcox, ltd. at the University Press, 1937, page 263
- ^ The Mariner's Mirror. Society for Nautical Research. 1984. p. 160.
- ^ Polmar, Norman; Cavas, Christopher (2009). Navy's Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of Admirable Admirals, Sleek Submarines, and Other Naval Oddities. Potomac Books, Inc. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-59797-655-8.