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Thursday, 13 October 2016

Spanish torpedo boat Halcón (1887) according to the magazine Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens dated 1889 no. 1

Built by Yarrow, England in 1887. Displacement 100 tons and as dimensions 41,148 x 4,198 x 1,37 medium) metres and proportion beam : length 0,102. Triple steam engine and locomotive boiler supplying 1.626 ihp allowing a speed of 23,042 knots. With a coal bunker capacity of 30 tons and a coal consumption of 1 ihp each hour of 0,5 (economic speed)-1,04 (forced speed) kilo was the range 2.376 miles.