Spanish destroyer Furor

Furor on builder's trials in the United Kingdom ca. 1896
History
Spain
Name:	Furor
Namesake:	Spanish word for "fury".
Builder:	Thomson, later Clydebank, United Kingdom
Laid down:	21 February 1896
Launched:	1896
Completed:	21 November 1896
Fate:	Sunk 3 July 1898
General characteristics
Class and type:	Furor-class destroyer
Displacement:	370 tons
Length:	220 ft 0 in (67.06 m)
Beam:	22 ft 0 in (6.71 m)
Draft:	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Installed power:	6,000 ihp (4,500 kW)
Propulsion:	2-shaft, 4-cylinder triple expansion, 4 Normand boilers
Speed:	28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Complement:	67 officers and enlisted
Armament:	2 × 14 pdr quick-firing guns 8 × 6 pdr quick-firing guns 2 × 1 pdr Maxim guns, 2 × torpedo tubes
Notes:	100 tons coal (normal)

Furor was a Furor-class destroyer of the Spanish Navy that fought at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish–American War.

Furor was built in the United Kingdom by Thomson, (which would rename itself Clydebank Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. the following year). Her keel was laid on 21 February 1896, and she was completed on 21 November 1896. She had three funnels. In the parlance of the day, she was a "torpedo boat destroyer", designed to protect larger ships against torpedo boat attack, but also carrying torpedoes with which to attack larger ships herself.

As tensions between Spain and the United States grew in early 1898, Furor was part of the Spanish Navy's 1st Squadron, commanded by Vice Admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete. The squadron was ordered to concentrate at São Vicente in Portugal's Cape Verde Islands. Accordingly, Furor, in company with Cervera's flagship, the armored cruiser Infanta Maria Teresa, armored cruiser Cristobal Colon, and destroyers Pluton and Terror, departed Cadiz on 8 April 1898 and arrived at São Vicente on 14 April 1898. The ships had experienced mechanical problems and burned an excessive amount of coal during the voyage. Soon, the squadron was reinforced by two more armored cruisers, Vizcaya and Almirante Oquendo.