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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Audaz			J & G Thompson, Clydebank, UK	1897	6.2.1897	3/1898	discarded 6.1924
Osado			J & G Thompson, Clydebank, UK	1897	16.3.1897	4/1898	discarded 1925
Plutón			J & G Thompson, Clydebank, UK	2/1897	1897	11/1897	sunk 3.7.1898
Proserpina			J & G Thompson, Clydebank, UK	1897	25.10.1897	4/1898	discarded 1931

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	400
Displacement full, t	Audaz, Osado, Plutón: 430 Proserpina: 457
Length, m	66.6 pp 69.8 oa
Breadth, m	6.88
Draught, m	1.79 mean 3.00 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 4 Normand boilers
Power, h. p.	7500
Max speed, kts	30
Fuel, t	coal 100
Endurance, nm(kts)	1100(15)
Armament	2 x 1 - 75/42 Nordenfelt M1898, 2 x 1 - 57/42 Nordenfelt, 2 x 1 - 37/27 Maxim, 2 x 1 - 356 TT
Complement	67

Standard scale images

Project history

Classic destroyers of first generation, development of Furor class. Three-funneled.  Proserpina differed by outline profile: she was two-funneled.

Modernizations

1920, Audaz, Osado, Proserpina: + mines.

Naval service

Plutón was sunk 3.7.1898 at Santiago by American armed yacht Gloucester and battleship Indiana.