Sacramento

[shipstamps]

Peru has issued a stamp depicting the Sacramento, a postal packet which became the first warship of the young republic. She has previously appeared on a stamp issued by Peru in 1936 but there is no likeness between the vessel shown on the earlier stamp and as depicted on the new issue. I am wondering if the first issue showed the vessel as a postal brig before she became a ship of war, the second after her conversion into a schooner-of-war. SG574 and 1100.

[aukepalmhof]

Of her earlier history noting is know so far.
She was schooner rigged.
Given as a Spanish Mail Packet and seized by some of her crew and passengers in March 1821.
A other source gives she was seized by the brothers Andres and Voctoriano Carcama from the Spaniards on 21 March 1821.
07 July 1821 commissioned in the Peruvian Navy, she was the first ship of this navy.
Under command of Lieutenant D.Joseph Wickham and a crew of 36 men.
Armed with one gun.

Renamed on Oct. 1821 in CASTELLI in honor of the Argentinean politician Juan Jose Castelli.
During her first naval battle she captured the Spanish brigantine PEZUELA.
Other source gives she captured the Spanish schooner MACEDONIA.
CASTELLI, her last recorded sailing was from Iquique in 1824.

Log Book. http://members.lycos.co.uk/Juan39/First_Years.html?