Spanish destroyer Terror

Terror in front of Larache in 1911
History
Spain
Name:	Terror
Namesake:	Spanish word for "terror"
Builder:	Thomson, later Clydebank, United Kingdom
Laid down:	9 February 1896
Launched:	28 August 1896
Completed:	20 November 1896
Fate:	Scrapped 1924
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)

Terror was a Furor-class destroyer of the Spanish Navy that fought at San Juan, Puerto Rico during the Spanish–American War. Constructed in the United Kingdom, the ship entered service in 1896 and was significantly damaged at the Second Battle of San Juan in 1898. In 1920, the destroyer was converted to a minelayer and discarded in 1924.

Terror was built in the United Kingdom by Thomson, (which would rename itself Clydebank Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. the following year). Her keel was laid on 9 February 1896, she was launched on 28 August 1896, and she was completed on 20 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, Terror 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, Terror, in company with Cervera's flagship, armored cruiser Infanta Maria Teresa, armored cruiser Cristobal Colon, and destroyers Pluton and Furor, 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.