Portugal ordered building of cruiser and torpedo gunboats in England according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1896-1897 no.7

An referred to the Mittheilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens reporting that the Portuguese government ordered the building of a cruiser of the Yoskine design and torpedo gunboats of the Oayx design at the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company Ltd.