![]() Painting of CSS Alabama, sister ship of Tornado, on display at the US Navy's Naval Historical Center
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Name | CSS Texas |
Launched | 1863 |
Commissioned | 1865 |
Fate | Purchased by Chile for £75,000. |
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Owner | Chilean Navy |
Acquired | February 1866 |
Renamed | Pampero |
Fate | Captured off Madeira by the Spanish frigate Gerona. |
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Acquired | 1870 |
Commissioned | 1870 |
Decommissioned | 1938 |
Renamed | Tornado |
Captured | 28 October 1873 |
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General characteristics | |
Displacement | 2,100 tons[1] |
Length | 231 ft (70 m)[1] |
Beam | 33 ft (10 m)[1] |
Propulsion | Steam, sail |
Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)[1] |
Range | 1,700 miles (2,700 km)[1] |
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Tornado was a bark-rigged screw steam corvette[2][3] of the Spanish Navy, first launched at Clydebank, Scotland in 1863, as the Confederate raider CSS Texas. She is most famous for having captured the North American filibustering ship Virginius, which led to the "Virginius Affair", which afterwards led to the Spanish-American Crisis of 1873.