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Thursday, 13 October 2016

Spanish torpedo boat Barceló (1886) according to the magazine Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens dated 1889 no. 1

Built by Normand, France in 1886. Displacement 65 tons and as dimensions 38,75 x 3,35 x metres and proportion beam : length 0,086. Triple steam engine and locomotive boiler allowing a speed of 19,503 knots. With a coal bunker capacity of 16 tons and a coal consumption of 1 ihp each hour of 0,396 (economic speed) kilo was the range 1.165 miles.