The Battle of Caldera Bay, or the Sinking of Blanco Encalada, was a naval engagement fought in the Caldera Bay during the 1891 Chilean Civil War between...
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being that of 1868, 1877 and 1922. During the 1891 Chilean Civil War, Caldera Bay outside the city became the site of the Battle of Caldera Bay where torpedo...
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Destroyer (section Development of modern destroyers)
one of these Almirante Lynch-class torpedo boats managed to sink the ironclad Blanco Encalada with a self-propelled torpedoes in the Battle of Caldera Bay...
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in the Battle of Caldera Bay, during Chilean Civil War of 1891 Ironclad turret ship Huáscar* (1865, ex Peruvian ship) - captured in the Battle of Angamos...
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Almirante Condell. These two ships participated in the Battle of Caldera Bay during the Chilean Civil War of 1891, where Almirante Lynch managed to sink the...
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Rear Admiral David Farragut's famous/apocryphal command during the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" refers to a minefield...
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ironclad Blanco Encalada with a torpedo at the battle of Caldera Bay during the Chilean Civil War of 1891. This marked a milestone in naval history,...
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during the Chilean Civil War of 1891, when they attacked and sunk the ironclad Blanco Encalada at the Battle of Caldera Bay. Then in 1896 she acquired Almirante...
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fleet and coastal defenses repel French squadron 1891 April 23 Battle of Caldera Bay – Chilean Balmacedist torpedo boats sink a Chilean Congressionalist...
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Civil War of 1891: Chilean ironclad Blanco Encalada is sunk at the Battle of Caldera Bay by torpedo boats. This is the first ironclad warship lost to a self-propelled...
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put into the port of Caldera. During the night of April 23, and whilst Blanco Encalada was lying quietly at anchor in Caldera Bay, Almirante Lynch, belonging...
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Chilean torpedo gunboat Almirante Simpson (category Torpedo gunboats of the Chilean Navy)
Blanco Encalada at the battle of Caldera Bay during the Chilean Civil War of 1891. This fact showed the world that this type of ship also had the capability...
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Chilean ironclad Blanco Encalada (category Ships of the War of the Pacific)
close quarters of Mollendo, of the gunboat Pilcomayo on 18 November. Blanco Encalada was sunk by a torpedo gunboat in the Battle of Caldera Bay, Chile, on...
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anchor by the Balmacedist torpedo gunboat "Almirante Lynch" in the Battle of Caldera Bay. The question arose whether the torpedo itself would not become...
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1891 in Chile (category Years of the 19th century in Chile)
January 18-September 16 - Chilean Civil War of 1891 March 6 - Battle of Pozo Almonte April 23 - Battle of Caldera Bay May 6 - Itata Incident: the steamer Itata...
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Mount Vesuvius (category Geography of Naples)
arc. Vesuvius consists of a large cone partially encircled by the steep rim of a summit caldera, resulting from the collapse of an earlier, much higher...
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troops surrendered without firing a shot. Pozo Almonte Caldera Bay Concón Placilla After the battle of Placilla it was clear to President Balmaceda that he...
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Volcanic crater lake (redirect from Caldera lake)
a collapse during a volcanic eruption. Lakes in calderas fill large craters formed by the collapse of a volcano during an eruption. Lakes in maars fill...
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Koʻolau Range (category Volcanoes of Oahu)
over the ocean floor to the northeast of Oʻahu. Kāneʻohe Bay is what remains of the ancient volcano's summit caldera after the slide. The modern Koʻolau...
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The Bay of Pigs (Spanish: Bahía de los Cochinos) is an inlet of the Gulf of Cazones, located on the southern coast of Cuba. By 1910 it was included in...
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Tauranga Volcanic Centre (category Calderas of New Zealand)
history of rifting and caldera volcanism imprinted in new gravity anomaly compilation of the Taupō Volcanic Zone, New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Geology...
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The Battle of Placilla was an engagement fought during the Chilean Civil War of 1891 between Balmacedist and Congressional forces on 28 August 1891. The...
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The Battle of Concón was fought between the forces of the Congress of Chile and loyalists of President Jose Manuel Balmaceda. In mid-August 1891 the rebel...
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Santorini (redirect from History of Santorini)
island of a small, circular archipelago formed by the Santorini caldera. It is the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately...
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Simushir (category Calderas of Russia)
width of 13 kilometres (8.1 mi), and an area of 227.6 square kilometres (87.9 sq mi). At the north end of the island is a half-submerged caldera, Brouton...
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Mount Mazama (redirect from Eruption of Mount Mazama)
(97 km) north of the Oregon–California border. Its collapse, due to the eruption of magma emptying the underlying magma chamber, formed a caldera that holds...
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SCO Group (category Caldera (company))
pursuing a series of high-profile legal battles known as the SCO-Linux controversies. The SCO Group began in 2002 with a renaming of Caldera International...
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megatons of TNT. The former summit of the volcano was obliterated and replaced by a caldera 2.5 km (1.6 mi) wide. The highest point on the caldera rim now...
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Mount Pinatubo (redirect from History of Mount Pinatubo)
walls of an old 3.5 km × 4.5 km (2.2 mi × 2.8 mi) wide caldera, referred to as Tayawan Caldera by Delfin. Some of the nearby peaks are the remnants of ancestral...
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Yellowstone National Park (redirect from Wildlife of Yellowstone National Park)
America and is centered over the Yellowstone Caldera, the largest super volcano on the continent. The caldera is considered a dormant volcano. It has erupted...
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