An item reported that the British shipyard Messrs. Yarrow&Co. at Poplar built for account of the Spanish government the torpedo boats Azor and Halcon with as main dimensions 135 x 15 feet which was similar to the British torpedo boat No. 80 recently built by the same yard. The machinery consisted of 1.550hp triple compound steam engines with a single boiler. The armament consisted of two torpedo tubes fore and probably was she on the aft ship to be armed with torpedo guns mounted on turn table also able to fire sideways.
During her trials executed by the Azor about two months a ago achieved she during a run of 2.45 hours and with a load of 17 tons a speed of 24 knots. She went under own steam towards Spain and proved underway in bead weather to be excellent seagoing. Her sister ship Halcon executed her trial a week ago and achieved with a load of 17 tons a speed of 23,5 knots. She intended th leave for Spain in the coming week.(1)
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1. Called 1st class torpedo boats both destroyed during a fire at Cadiz on 10 December 1905. Dimensions 135 (between perpendiculars) x 13.9 x 7 feet (maximum) or 41,14 x 4,23 x 2,13 metres with a displacement of 100 ton. The armament consisted of 2 torpedo tubes at the bow for which 4 torpedoes were carried with them and 3-3pd quick firing guns.
