BAP Independencia was a broadside ironclad built in England for the Peruvian Navy during the mid-1860s. During the War of the Pacific of 1879–83, Independencia...
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Spanish schooner Virgen de Covadonga (category Shipwrecks of Peru)
faced the ironclad Huáscar at the Naval Battle of Iquique, and Covadonga managed to escape from the attacks of the Peruvian ironclad Independencia when the...
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War of the Pacific (redirect from Chile-Peruvian War)
the Peruvian ironclad Huáscar engaged and sank the wooden Esmeralda. Meanwhile, during the Battle of Punta Gruesa, the Peruvian ironclad Independencia struck...
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Huáscar is an ironclad turret ship owned by the Chilean Navy built in 1865 for the Peruvian government. It is named after the 16th-century Inca emperor...
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Battle of Iquique (category Naval battles involving Peru)
Arturo Prat Chacón faced a Peruvian ironclad under Miguel Grau Seminario. The battle occurred off the port of Iquique, Peru, and ended with the sinking...
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Independencia (1818) Independencia (1843), Yucetechan naval schooner in the Naval Battle of Campeche Independencia (Peruvian ship) (1865), Peruvian ironclad...
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used a few years previously against Spain. While Independencia ran aground early on, the Peruvian ironclad Huáscar made a great impact against Chilean shipping...
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schooner Covadonga sinks Peruvian ironclad Independencia. 26 May First Battle of Antofagasta – Peruvian ironclad Huáscar raids Chilean port of Antofagasta...
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1928 Central battery ironclad Almirante Brown (1880) - retired in 1932 Coastal defence ships Independencia class Independencia (1891) - retired in 1946...
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Virgen de Covadonga, in the midst of the struggle, caused the Peruvian ironclad Independencia to run aground. (details) 1879, July 10 – Inconclusive engagement...
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Battle of Punta Gruesa (category Naval battles involving Peru)
blockading the Peruvian port of Iquique. However, as the Chilean Navy steamed north towards Callao, two ironclad ships of the Peruvian Navy steamed south...
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Battle of Angamos (category Naval battles involving Peru)
later captured the Peruvian monitor Huáscar, under Rear Admiral Miguel Grau Seminario. After the loss of the frigate Independencia at Punta Gruesa, Grau...
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Naerebout. The Peruvian ironclad Independencia was fitting out in Terneuzen. She had been built in England, but because Spain was at war with Peru, she would...
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The Peruvian Navy (Spanish: Marina de Guerra del Perú, abbreviated MGP) is the branch of the Peruvian Armed Forces tasked with surveillance, patrol and...
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List of capital ships of minor navies (section Peru)
This is a list of capital ships (battleships, ironclads and coastal defence ships) of minor navies: El Plata class ARA El Plata (1874) ARA Los Andes (1874)...
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Magallanes, and the schooner Covadonga. The Peruvian navy based its power on the broadside ironclad frigate Independencia and the monitor Huáscar. The rest of...
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Chincha Islands War (category 1866 in Peru)
Maule, which was transporting sailors to crew the new Peruvian ironclads Huáscar and Independencia. The Spanish could not attack land forces and had been...
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Juan Guillermo More (category Peruvian Navy officers)
months later, Captain Moore took a Peruvian Navy crew to the United States to bring the ironclad Atahualpa to Peru. The monitor sailed from New Orleans...
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board the schooner Covadonga, sniped down numerous Peruvians on board the ironclad Independencia. He was born in Llico (Arauco). His parents were both...
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the Peruvian Navy comprising almost every Peruvian warship commissioned after 1840. President Castilla sought to expand and well-equip the Peruvian Navy...
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Battle of Callao (category 1866 in Peru)
Lima, Perú, August 22, 1870. A couple of months after the battle, the famed ironclad ships of the War of the Pacific, Huáscar and Independencia, were...
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This is a list of Peruvian steam frigates of the period 1852-1881:...
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John Randolph Tucker (naval officer) (category Peruvian Navy admirals)
the Confederate States Navy, and rear admiral in the Peruvian Navy. As president of the Peruvian Hydrographic Commission of the Amazon, he contributed...
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Raids of Huáscar (category Battles involving Peru)
Raids of the Huáscar were a series of raids that occurred by the Peruvian ironclad Huáscar under the command of Miguel Grau Seminario during the War...
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on May 21, which proved decisive as the Peruvians lost one of their two modern ships -the ironclad Independencia-, to an old wooden schooner, the Covadonga;...
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Independencia) with a crew of 7 men, and officer and 126 sailors destined to complete the crews of the Peruvian ironclads Huascar and Independencia,...
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Aurelio García y García (category Peruvian Navy admirals)
officers, he therefore resigned the command of Independencia and returned to Lima. Along with other Peruvian sailors, including Miguel Grau, he was court-martialed...
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built between 1859 and 1946, listed alphabetically. The boundary between ironclads and the first battleships, the so-called 'pre-dreadnought battleship'...
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proved more accurate and inflicted damage to the Chilean and Peruvian ships. Dispatched by Peruvian president Mariano Ignacio Prado, who had rallied the South...
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against Bolivia and Peru. Still, several warships were ordered by both nations: the Argentines commissioned a central battery ironclad, Almirante Brown,...
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