Huáscar (ironclad)
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Huáscar is an ironclad turret ship owned by the Chilean Navy built in 1865 for the Peruvian government. It is named after the 16th-century Inca emperor, Huáscar.[1] She was the flagship of the Peruvian Navy and participated in the Battle of Pacocha and the War of the Pacific of 1879–1883. At the Battle of Angamos, Huáscar, captained by renowned Peruvian naval officer Miguel Grau Seminario, was captured by the Chilean fleet and commissioned into the Chilean Navy.
Huáscar in 1903 | |
History | |
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Peru | |
Name | Huáscar |
Ordered | 4 August 1864 |
Builder | Laird Brothers, Birkenhead, England |
Launched | 7 October 1865 |
Commissioned | 8 November 1866 |
Captured | Captured by Chile at the Battle of Angamos, 8 October 1879 |
Chile | |
Acquired | 8 October 1879 |
Decommissioned | 1897 |
Reinstated | 1934 |
Status | Museum ship |
General characteristics | |
Type | Ironclad turret ship |
Displacement | 1,870 long tons (1,900 t) |
Length | 66.9 m (219 ft 6 in) |
Beam | 10.9 m (35 ft 9 in) |
Draught | 5.7 m (18 ft 8 in) |
Installed power | |
Propulsion | 1 × screw; 1 × Horizontal-return connecting rod-steam engine |
Sail plan | Brig-rigged |
Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 170 |
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Today Huáscar is one of the few surviving ships of her type. She has been restored and is a memorial ship anchored in Talcahuano, Chile. Huáscar is the second oldest armored warship afloat after Warrior, and the oldest monitor afloat.