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A model of the Spanish Torpedo Gunboat ‘El Destructor’ at the Glasgow Transport Museum, 2 March 2007. By the early 1880’s it was becoming clear that the battleships of the time, with their slow firing guns, could not adequately defend themselves from the new torpedo boats then being developed at a rapid pace. One solution was fast firing secondary guns for the battleships but something more was needed, a battle fleet’s existing escort vessels being far too slow to catch attacking torpedo boats. An innovative Spanish naval officer, Fernando Villaamel, drew up a specification for a suitable anti-torpedo boat ship. The Spanish Navy accepted his ideas and requested British shipyards to present suitable designs to meet the specification. J&G Thompson of Clydebank won the tender. The result was what was then termed a torpedo gunboat, effectively the genesis of the destroyer. The appropriately-named ‘El Destructor’ was launched in 1886 and completed the following year. The vessel measured 193 ft x 25 ft x 8 ft and had a displacement of 350 tons. She was powered by two triple-expansion steam reciprocating engines of 3,784 ihp which gave her a maximum speed of 22.5 kts. El Destructor was armed with 1x4”, 4x6 pdrs & 2x37mm guns plus 2x40mm torpedo tubes, so that she could attack enemy battle fleets as well as defend her own. She was scrapped in 1911. So successful was El Destructor that she heavily influenced the first true destroyer – the British HMS Havock. The torpedo gunboat effectively evolved into the torpedo boat destroyer, a much more sea-worthy ship than the smaller torpedo boats which eventually replaced the latter in most navies. |
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| Author | Hugh Llewelyn from Keynsham, UK |
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