PAQUETE DE MAULE 1861

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PAQUETE DE MAULE 1861

Post by aukepalmhof » Fri Nov 24, 2017 7:44 pm

Built as a wooden sidewheel steamer by Lawrence & Foulks at Williamsburg, New York for G.K. Stevenson & Co.
Launched as the PAQUETE DE MAULE
Tonnage burthen 407 tons, dim. 50 x 8.8 x 2.7m, draught 2.59m.
Powered by two 32 inch cylinders of a stroke vertical beam steam engine.
Auxiliary sails, brig rigged.
Armed two guns.
1861 Completed.

PAQUETE DE MAULE (also spelled PAQUETTE DE MAULE and PAQUETE DEL MAULE) was a small merchant sidewheel steamer built in the United States in 1861 for operation along the Chilean coast. Converted into a gunboat for service during the Chincha Islands War, she was captured by Spain and scuttled shortly thereafter.
Construction and design
PAQUETE DE MAULE, a 400-ton sidewheel steamer, was built by Lawrence & Foulks in 1861 at Williamsburg, New York for G. K. Stevenson & Co., who planned to operate the vessel between Valparaiso and Maule, Chile.
PAQUETE DE MAULE was 165 feet long, with a beam of 29 feet, depth of hold 9 feet, and draft of 8 feet 6 inches. She was built of white oak and locust, with square frames fastened with copper and treenails, and strengthened with diagonal and double laid braces. She was powered by a pair of 32-inch cylinder, 8-foot stroke vertical beam steam engines built by the Neptune Iron Works of New York, driving two 24-foot-diameter (7.3 m) wooden sidewheels. Steam was supplied by a pair of flue boilers without blowers, located in the hold. The vessel was also brig-rigged for auxiliary sail power.
Capture of the PAQUETE DE MAULE
During the Chincha Islands War, the PAQUETE DEL MAULE served as an auxiliary ship to the Chilean fleet and she was not armed. On March 6, 1866, while enroute from Lota to Montevideo with a crew of 126 men destined to complete the crews of the ironclads HUÁSCAR and INDEPENDENCIA, she was captured by the Spanish frigates BLANCA and NUMANCIA at the Gulf of Arauco.
31 March 1866 she was in Valparaiso during the bombardment of the town, if she took part in the bombardment I could not find.
On 10 May 1866, after the Battle of Callao, the PAQUETE DEL MAULE was burned and scuttled by the Spanish near the San Lorenzo Island since they couldn't take her with them on their retreat towards the Philippines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paquete_de_Maule
Chile 2017 label.
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