The Capture of the corvette Pilcomayo was a battle of the Naval campaign of the War of the Pacific. In the battle, the Peruvian gunboat Pilcomayo was...

was the commander of the BAP Pilcomayo during the War of the Pacific, commanding it before its capture. He was also a Senator of the Department of Huánuco...

October Naval Battle of Angamos – Chilean ships capture Peruvian ironclad Huáscar. 18 November Capture of the corvette Pilcomayo – Chilean ironclad Blanco...

The Pilcomayo was originally a Peruvian gunboat involved in several actions during the War of the Pacific. Captured by the Chilean navy on November 18...

the Capture of the corvette Pilcomayo. On September 22, 1880, he had the mission to bombard the Peruvian port of Ancón. He later participated in the battles...

1879 and became commander of the Unión once again. It was part of the Second Peruvian Squadron along with the Pilcomayo. The division was commanded by...

BAP Unión was a corvette of the Peruvian Navy, originally ordered by the government of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War...

The Battle of Iquique was a naval engagement on 21 May 1879, during the War of the Pacific, where a Chilean corvette commanded by Arturo Prat Chacón faced...

His younger brother, Captain Carlos Ferreyros, fought in the war, commanding the Pilcomayo gunboat. Ferreyros was born in Lima to Manuel Bartolomé Ferreyros...

the gunboat Pilcomayo, and the coastal monitors Atahualpa and Manco Cápac, purchased from the United States at the end of the Civil War. The coastal monitors...

men of the crew, the commander, Captain Pablo Ferrari, and 32 sailors died, 29 were rescued by the gun-boat Pilcomayo, and 48 were captured by the Peruvians...

The Capture of the steamer Rímac or the Hunt and seizure of the Chilean transport Rímac was a part of the Raids of Huáscar during the Naval campaign of...

six other students of the School, to be part of the crew of the BAP Chanchamayo [es] and the BAP Pilcomayo [es] gunboats, which were built in Europe. He...

after the French government stopped to sale to the Confederacy. Scuttled January 1881 to avoid capture. America (1864) ex-CSS Texas, screw corvette and...

the War of the Pacific broke out in 1879, he was appointed Chief of the Second Naval Division of Peru, made up of the Union corvette , the Pilcomayo gunboat...

kilometers north of Antofagasta. Falling in a trap set by Riveros and Latorre, Grau was forced to present battle after ordering the corvette Unión to escape...

and historical memorial ship at the port of Talcahuano, Chile Pilcomayo |  Peruvian Navy |18 November 1879 captured by Chilean Blanco Encalada. Alay...

during the dawn of 17 January 1881. Among the ships scuttled were the last Peruvian ironclad, the monitor Atahualpa, the corvette Unión, the training...

hand, the Chilean Navy captured the ship Pilcomayo in November 1879 and the torpedo boat Alay in December 1880. When Lima fell after the Battles of Chorrillos...

commission in charge of supervising the construction of the Chanchamayo [es] and Pilcomayo gunboats. Due to the crisis that the Peruvian Navy was going...

noticing the maneuver, ordered his commanders to follow and capture the Peruvian corvette. Villavicencio governed the Unión and managed to evade the pursuing...

along with the sailors of the corvette Esmeralda that Miguel Grau had saved after the combat in Iquique, all of whom would be released. when the Chilean...

charge of this task. The Peruvian ships, among them, the corvette Unión and the monitor Atahualpa, were beached, set on fire and sunk by the Peruvians...

returning the next morning, so they planned to attack or capture a transport off Antofagasta. The corvette Unión and the Huáscar sailed south, away from the coast...

Baquedano. On 9 April, the port of El Callao was placed under blockade. However, the Peruvian corvette Unión broke through the blockade on Arica, delivering...

information that night as the Chilean squadron withdrew from Iquique and only one ship remained to blockade the port. This ship was the corvette Abtao, but what...

observed during the blockade, including corvettes from the US, France, and the UK. On 27 February, the Chilean Navy began bombarding the city's ground defenses...

from the original on 2013-02-19. Retrieved 2013-01-12. "Armada de Chile | Pilcomayo, cañonera (1º)". armada.cl. April 1, 2011. Archived from the original...

ships like the corvette Unión. Even before the war broke out, the Chilean government didn't trust in the capabilities of its High Command. The Army Commander...

armored vehicles, the O'Higgins corvette and the Angamos transport ship. The Peruvian military command ordered troops under the command of Andrés Avelino...