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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,
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had just left port, and French officials announced that in accordance with international law and France's neutrality, the destroyers, as belligerents, could not leave port until 48 hours after
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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 "
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spent the rest of the war under repair at San Juan. Repairs were completed on 14 September 1898, a month after the war ended, and she returned to Spain.
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was at São Vicente. Ordered by neutral Portugal in accordance with international law to leave São Vicente within 24 hours of the declaration of war,
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repeatedly, killing two men (the only casualties either side suffered in the action) and putting a hole in the destroyer's side. Severely damaged,
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soon got her engines running and was released by the French authorities. She made for San Juan, Puerto Rico, arriving there on 17 May 1898.
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engines, then successfully made a dash out into international waters 24 hours early. Cervera's squadron steamed on, leaving
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to ask for coal. France was neutral and would not supply coal. Moreover, the American auxiliary
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moved in, resulting in a short, running gun battle, from which the Spanish quickly broke away.
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and her fellow destroyers were towed part of the way. Cervera's ships reached French-owned
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had become immobilized with engine problems, so the destroyer flotilla commander, Captain
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could go no faster than 10 knots (19 km/h); in order to cover their retreat,
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attack, but also carrying torpedoes with which to attack larger ships herself.
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and the rest of Cervera's squadron departed on 29 April 1898, bound for
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As tensions between Spain and the United States grew in early 1898,
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out in the harbor on 12 May 1898 under the ruse of testing
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came out of port to test the blockade, resulting in the
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While the other ships loitered in international waters,
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She was scrapped in 1924. 7: 877:List of destroyers of Spain 103:in front of Larache in 1911 10: 934: 872: 822: 637:Second Battle of San Juan 381:the following year). 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Armada Española Ensign
Thomson
Clydebank
Furor-class
destroyer
Normand boilers
14 pdr
6 pdr
1 pdr
torpedo tubes
Furor-class
destroyer
Spanish Navy
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Spanish–American War
Second Battle of San Juan
minelayer
Thomson
Clydebank Engineering & Shipbuilding Co.
keel
torpedo boat destroyer

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