A trial of the first of two first-class torpedo boats of the Batoum type (length 99 feet 10 inches, beam12 feet 6 inches, draught 4 feet ten and a half inches; displacement thirty-nine and a half tons) built by Yarrow and Co., Poplar, for the Argentine Government, took place in early February 1882, in the presence of a group of Argentinean officials. The vessel achieved a speed of 19.7 knots, fully equipped and ready for action, and was expected to sail from London to Buenos Ayres in the near future. Two similar vessels built by Yarrow and Co., had completed this voyage in 1881 without a single mishap.