Spanish destroyer Plutón

History
Spain
Name:	Plutón
Namesake:	Spanish name for Pluto, Roman god of the underworld.
Builder:	Thomson, later Clydebank, United Kingdom
Laid down:	12 February 1897
Launched:	1897
Completed:	4 November 1897
Fate:	Sunk 3 July 1898
General characteristics
Class and type:	Audaz-class destroyer
Displacement:	400 tons
Length:	225 ft 0 in (68.58 m)
Beam:	22 ft 6 in (6.86 m)
Draft:	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Installed power:	7,500 ihp (5,600 kW)
Propulsion:	2-shaft triple expansion, 4 Normand boilers
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 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:	96 tons coal (normal)

Plutón, was an Audaz-class destroyer of the Spanish Navy that fought at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish–American War.

Plutón was built in the United Kingdom. Her keel was laid by Thomson on 12 February 1897; the company changed its name to Clydebank Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. in April 1897 and completed her under this name on 4 November 1897. 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, Plutón 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, Plutón, in company with Cervera's flagship, the armored cruiser Infanta Maria Teresa, armored cruiser Cristobal Colon, and destroyers Furor 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.

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