Canton/Texas/Pampero/Tornado

[Dixieroy]

Report on the Spanish vesel, the Tornado, with photgraph.
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TORNADO, was launched at Clydebank in 1863.
The vessel has a protective 4" armor belt surrounding her engines and boilers. She was armed with one 220mm (7.8") muzzleloading Parrott guns, two 160,15 cal. muzzleloading guns, two 120 mm bronze muzzleloading guns, and two 87 mm/24 cal. Hontoria breechloading guns. She had a crew complement of 202 men.

The Tornado has been built as the Canton, but in truth was the commerce-raider CSS Texas for James Dunwoody Bulloch. She was seized by British Government 1863, and acquired in 1865, she was purchased by Chile for 75,000 Pounds through Isaac Campbell & Co.in January or February of 1866, and named Pampero.
The Pampero was captured off Madeira by the Spanish frigate Gerona on August 22,1866, during the 1864-66 war (Guerra del Pacifico), and she was renamed Tornado. Commissioned in Spanish Navy, she was rated as screw corvette (1870). Serving in Cuban waters during First Cuban Insurrection, she captured insurgent blockade runner Virginius on October 31, 1873 . This action led to the "Virginius Affair" and to the Spanish-American Crisis of 1873 . She was converted to a torpedo-training vessel in 1886. She was sunk in Barcelona by a Nationalist air raid during the Spanish Civil War, and was finally broken up after 1939.

 

[Lubliner]

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Report on the Spanish vesel, the Tornado, with photgraph.
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TORNADO, was launched at Clydebank in 1863.
The vessel has a protective 4" armor belt surrounding her engines and boilers. She was armed with one 220mm (7.8") muzzleloading Parrott guns, two 160,15 cal. muzzleloading guns, two 120 mm bronze muzzleloading guns, and two 87 mm/24 cal. Hontoria breechloading guns. She had a crew complement of 202 men.

The Tornado has been built as the Canton, but in truth was the commerce-raider CSS Texas for James Dunwoody Bulloch. She was seized by British Government 1863, and acquired in 1865, she was purchased by Chile for 75,000 Pounds through Isaac Campbell & Co.in January or February of 1866, and named Pampero.
The Pampero was captured off Madeira by the Spanish frigate Gerona on August 22,1866, during the 1864-66 war (Guerra del Pacifico), and she was renamed Tornado. Commissioned in Spanish Navy, she was rated as screw corvette (1870). Serving in Cuban waters during First Cuban Insurrection, she captured insurgent blockade runner Virginius on October 31, 1873 . This action led to the "Virginius Affair" and to the Spanish-American Crisis of 1873 . She was converted to a torpedo-training vessel in 1886. She was sunk in Barcelona by a Nationalist air raid during the Spanish Civil War, and was finally broken up after 1939.

It mentions the Tornado was converted to a torpedo-training vessel in 1886. For laying mines and torpedoes? And did she keep her name after the conversion?
Thanks,
Lubliner.

 

[Dixieroy]

It mentions the Tornado was converted to a torpedo-training vessel in 1886. For laying mines and torpedoes? And did she keep her name after the conversion?
Thanks,
Lubliner.

Unfortunately I cannot answer thar, the info I have was sent to me at my website, possibly from Spain many years ago now, at least 15 I think.