Furor-class destroyer

Class overview
Operators	Spanish Navy
Preceded by	Destructor
Succeeded by	Bustamante class
In commission	1896–1931
Completed	6
Lost	2
Retired	4
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	380 tons
Length	69.8 m (229 ft 0 in)
Beam	6.8 m (22 ft 4 in)
Draft	4 m (13 ft 1 in)
Installed power	7,000 hp (5,200 kW)
Propulsion	4 Normand boilers, 2 triple-expansion engines, 2 propellers
Speed	28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Complement	65
Armament	Design; 2 × 75 mm (3 in) mm Nordenfelt cannon; 2 × 57 mm (2 in) mm Nordenfelt cannon ; 2 × Maxim machine guns; 2 × 350 mm (14 in) torpedo tubes;

The Furor class was a type of destroyers of the Spanish Navy, similar to the units of the A class, or 27 knotters, of the British Royal Navy. Commissioned in 1896 by the then Minister of the Navy Admiral Beranger after the success of the design by Fernando Villaamil of the warship Destructor, which had given name to a whole typology of vessels.

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