Maria Isabel 1816
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 9:37 pm
The ship was launched in Russia in 1816, as Patrikii and was sold to Spain in 1817 and renamed to María Isabel.
In 1818, still as María Isabel, she sailed under captain Dionisio Capas with a convoy to the coast of Peru but she was captured in Talcahuano by the First Chilean Navy Squadron.
The vessel was afterwards named O'Higgins after Bernardo O'Higgins, the South American Independentist leader and first Chilean head of state.
She was the flagship of Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald naval commander of the Liberating Expedition to Perú and sailed up to Acapulco.
1823, after O'Higgins was deposed by a conservative coup on January 28, the new government (of Ramón Freire) renamed the frigate María Isabel again.
She was sold to Argentina on 1. April 1826 and refittet in Valparaíso, but she never reached Buenos Aires. She sunk rounding Cape Horn.
Wikipedia
Chile 1910 SG124
See also
http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewt ... 886#p12886
In 1818, still as María Isabel, she sailed under captain Dionisio Capas with a convoy to the coast of Peru but she was captured in Talcahuano by the First Chilean Navy Squadron.
The vessel was afterwards named O'Higgins after Bernardo O'Higgins, the South American Independentist leader and first Chilean head of state.
She was the flagship of Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald naval commander of the Liberating Expedition to Perú and sailed up to Acapulco.
1823, after O'Higgins was deposed by a conservative coup on January 28, the new government (of Ramón Freire) renamed the frigate María Isabel again.
She was sold to Argentina on 1. April 1826 and refittet in Valparaíso, but she never reached Buenos Aires. She sunk rounding Cape Horn.
Wikipedia
Chile 1910 SG124
See also
http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewt ... 886#p12886