General Baquedano was the first training ship of the Chilean Navy ordered specifically for this purpose. She replaced in this function the old Abtao and...

Manuel Jesús Baquedano González (Latin American Spanish: [maˈnwel βakeˈðano]; January 1, 1823 – September 30, 1897) was a Chilean soldier and politician...

Baquedano Cordón Baquedano Baquedano Street Baquedano, Navarra, a town in Spain Chilean frigate General Baquedano (PF-09) Chilean corvette Baquedano (1898) This...

purchased by the Chilean Navy and renamed Esmeralda. When the barquentine Esmeralda (BE-43) was launched in 1953, the frigate was renamed Baquedano and continued...

de Chile, Valparaiso. The origins of the Chilean Navy date back to 1817, when General Bernardo O'Higgins prophetically declared after the Chilean victory...

the Chilean Army and the Chilean Navy, siding with the president and the congress, respectively. This conflict ended with the defeat of the Chilean Army...

the Peruvians hoped would stop any Chilean offensive. The Chilean General Staff had two plans for the attack. Baquedano, the army chief, advocated a direct...

Pisco and Chilca, located to the south of Lima. General Manuel Baquedano was in control of the army of Chile during the Lima campaign. Lima was going to be...

notified that the corvette Unión was sailing to Panamá to escort five small ships with torpedoes bought from the United States. The Chilean fleet sailed again...

against Chile, forged by a secret treaty signed in 1873. On 26 May 1880, the Chilean Northern Operations Army led by General Manuel Baquedano González...

after the Chileans won definitive naval superiority at Angamos. It took its name from the region where it was fought. After Angamos, the Chilean government...

under General Baquedano's command landed in 29 transports, along with the Blanco Encalada and Cochrane armored vehicles, the O'Higgins corvette and the...

population reached alarming numbers. In a census carried out by the Chilean corvette Abtao in 1892, there were only 101 Rapa Nui alive, of which only 12...

list of decommissioned ships of the Chilean Navy is mostly compiled from information given in the website of the Chilean Navy. It consists of over 500 historical...

was the first Chilean ship to visit the Easter Island. A professional sailor, in 1870 Policarpo Toro Hurtado arrived with the corvette "O'Higgins" to...

blocked by of the Chilean Navy. In the Battle of Iquique, which took place on May 21 of 1879, the Huáscar sank the Chilean corvette Esmeralda. At around...

Cárdenas (December 2, 1829 – January 11, 1892) was a Chilean naval officer, Commander of the Chilean Squadron during the War of the Pacific. He was born...

Commencing on 10 April 1880, the Chilean Navy fleet began a light blockade of the Peruvian port of Callao. The Chilean fleet would slowly grow as additional...

ships of the Chilean Navy were sent towards the Peruvian port of Callao in order to destroy its navy, while two old, wooden ships, the corvette Esmeralda...

the (then) Bolivian coast, as the Peruvian corvette Unión and gunboat Pilcomayo found the Chilean corvette Magallanes on its way to Iquique. For a while...