Spanish corvette Tornado

Painting of CSS Alabama, sister ship of Tornado, on display at the US Navy's Naval Historical Center
History
Confederate States
Name	CSS Texas
Launched	1863
Commissioned	1865
Fate	Purchased by Chile for £75,000.
Chile
Owner	Chilean Navy
Acquired	February 1866
Renamed	Pampero
Fate	Captured off Madeira by the Spanish frigate Gerona.
Spain
Acquired	1870
Commissioned	1870
Decommissioned	1938
Renamed	Tornado
Captured	28 October 1873
Fate	Sunk by aircraft in 1938 Hull broken up in 1939
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]
Armament	1 × 7.8 in (198 mm) muzzleloading Parrott gun[1] 2 × 160/15 cal gun 2 × 120 mm (5 in) bronze gun[1] 2 × 87 mm (3 in)/24 cal Hontoria breechloading guns[1]

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.