The cruisers Oquendo and Vizcaya, with the torpedo-boat destroyers Furor and Terror, were already on their way to Cuba, where were stationed the Alphonso XII.
An exceptionally large number of artisans were at work preparing for sea battle-ships, cruisers, and torpedo-boat destroyers.
Seagoing torpedo-boat destroyers should be substituted for some of the smaller torpedo boats.
We need to increase the number of torpedo-boat destroyers, paying less heed to their having a knot or two extra speed than to their capacity to keep the seas for weeks, and, if necessary, for months at a time.
The odds were not so greatly in favor of the Americans, for the Spaniards had four armored cruisers and two torpedo-boat destroyers, while the Americans had five battle-ships, one armored cruiser and a yacht.
Just then the two torpedo-boat destroyers 'Pluton' and 'Furor' were discovered.
In his attack on the torpedo-boat destroyers--vastly superior to his craft in weight and armament--he threw prudence to the winds and fought with a fierceness bred of bitter hatred for the Dons.
The torpedo-boat destroyers were of the best and latest type of their class, and recently built on the Clyde.
For many years the Spanish Navy had been sadly neglected, but since 1890 some armoured cruisers had been built, and a flotilla of torpedo-boat destroyers added to the navy.
The fleet consisted of seven battleships, two armoured cruisers, and some protected cruisers and torpedo-boat destroyers.
From their point of observation they had seen the black shapes of an advancing squadron of battleships, light cruisers, and torpedo-boat destroyers.
It came from the funnels of four torpedo-boat destroyers.
By a pure fluke the Diomeda had entered the newly completed artificial harbour, and was anchored within fifty yards of the nearest of a triple line of grey torpedo-boat destroyers.
He ordered the whole of the second flotilla of torpedo-boat destroyers to proceed at once to sea, in the hope that they might overhaul the errant Zeppelin should the gale moderate.
Night and day the bosom of the outer bay was closely watched, for it was known that Cervera had with him one or two torpedo-boat destroyers, and these were dreaded more than anything else.
It was now high time to turn attention to the two torpedo-boat destroyers, Pluton and Furor, that were coming out of the harbor at a speed of twenty knots per hour.
The last two in the line are the torpedo-boat destroyers.
Within the harbor were four large Spanish ships and two new, fast torpedo-boat destroyers, all commanded by Admiral Cervera.
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