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AGUILA

Post by shipstamps » Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:53 pm

Built in 1796.
Displacement 220 tons.
Armament; 16 carronades, as warship.
Crew 90 as warship.

She was an English brigantine with a crew of 43 men, which was captured by the Spanish authorities in Coquimbo as contraband in 1816.
Renamed AGUILA (Eagle).

When under Spanish flag and under command of Captain Jose Anacleto Goñi and used as a merchant vessel, was she captured by Commander Rudecindo Alvarado on 26 February 1817 at Valparaiso, Chile, after he refused to lower the Spanish flag.
Refitted in a warship

She was the first vessel in the Chilean Navy after she was captured.
After her capture the AGUILA was immediately assigned the task of rescuing 78 Chilean patriots, which were as prisoners send in exile by Marcó del Pont to Juan Fernandez Island, one of the prisoners was Manuel Blanco Encalada (1790 – 1876), who subsequently led the Chilean Navy, and became later for a short time the first President of Chile.
31 March 1817 she left from Valparaiso under command of Lieutenant Raimundo Morris, (he was an Irish artillery officer, so he was the first navy officer in the Chilean Navy) with a company of light armed military of the first naval infantry group of the Chilean Navy.

08 October 1818 captured the frigate PERLA loaded with a valuable cargo, the PERLA was the same vessel that was used in the first attempt to form a navy in Chile.

She captured the Spanish merchantmen SAN MIGUEL, what entered Valparaiso, without knowing that Chile had a warship.

14 July 1818 was renamed PUEYRREDON in honor to the Argentinean General Don Juan Martin Pueyrredon.
She joined the Second Division of the squadron of Admiral Thomas A. Chochrane during his first incursion in Peru.
Took part in the First Liberation Expedition of Peru. The fleet of 17 ships left Valparaiso on 20 August 1820 and arrived off the landing place on 07 September 1820.

1821 She was wrecked at Ancon when in use as a pontoon.

She is on Chile 1986 35p sg 1061

Source; http://www.armada.cl/site/unidades_navales/003.htm and some other Spanish web-sites, kindly translated for my by Mr. Mario Rosner.

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