CHACABUCO 1866 corvette

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CHACABUCO 1866 corvette

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu Nov 02, 2017 8:02 pm

For the Centenary of the Chilean Naval Engineering on 31 May 1989 Chile released four stamps of 45p commemorating the establishment in 1889 of its first school of naval engineering.
The vessel on the stamp is given as the CHACABUCO, she was the site of the first Chilean Navy Firemen’s school on 25 April 1889. Comparing stamp with a photo of the ship, the designer has made some alternations, the CHACABUCO was a steamship, but I can’t find any funnel on the ship on the stamp. On the stamp she is square rigged while on the photo it is more schooner rigged.

Built as a wooden screw corvette under yard no. 363 by R & H Green at Blackwall, London for the Chilean Navy.
1864 laid down.
1866 Launched as the CHACABUCO.
Displacement 1,670 tons, dim. 66.62 (bpp) x 10.18 x 5,30m. (draught)
Powered by a steam engine, 1,200 ihp, one shaft, speed 10 knots.
Carried sails.
Armament 3 – 7 inch Armstrong, 2 – 70 pdr. 4 – 40 pdrs and four Hotchkiss MG
Crew 200.
July 1866 completed. Building cost 285,000 pesos.

She did not reach Chile for the war between Chile and Spain ended, the British Government did not allow her to sail before there was an agreement signed between Chile and Spain.
In 1870 she made a voyage in the Pacific under command of Captain José Anacieto Goni Prieto as training ship for midshipmen. During this voyage the flag of Chile was raised on Eastern Island.
During the Pacific War (the war between Chile, Bolivia and Peru) she was used in the blockade of Iquique under command of Captain Oscar Viel y Toro. The war was declared on 05 April 1879.
18 April 1879 in an attack on Pisagua together with the BLANCO ENCALADA trying to take the ships and boats in the port, the two ships were counter attacked by the garrison of the port in which the CHACABUCO crew got one dead and five wounded.
22 May 1879 she was a unit in a squadron bound for Callao, Peru.
June 1879 she was part of the first naval squadron commanded by Rear Admiral Juan Williams Rebolledo together with the BLANCO ENCALADA, the squadron stayed behind in Antofagasta to safeguard.
At the end of July the CHACABUCO arrived in Valparaiso, where she underwent repairs for two months, her armament was upgraded and she received new boilers, after she again could make 10 knots.
1890 Stricken from the naval list, and thereafter used as a coal hulk.
1909 Scrapped.

Source: Various internet sites. http://www.miramarshipindex.nz
Chile 1989 45p sg 1246, scott 837.
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