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Saturday 22 December 2012

Gunboat Terror arrived safely at Puerto Rico according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 13 June 1898

An item reported that the gunboat Terror arrived at Puerto Rico meaning that the tiding of the New York Herald that she was destroyed was false.(1)

Note
1. The Spanish torpedo gunboat Terror launched at the Clyde shipyard of Thomson, Scotland on 29 July 1886? Displacement of 348 tons and as dimensions 192’6” (over all) x 25 x 7’(maximum) or 58,70 x 7,62 x 2,13 metres. Her crew numbered 45 men and she was armed with 1-3.5” gun, 4-6pd guns, 2-3pd revolvers and 5-15” torpedo tubes.