Chilean corvette Esmeralda
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Esmeralda was a wooden-hulled steam corvette of the Chilean Navy, launched in 1855, and sunk by the Peruvian turret ship Huáscar on 21 May 1879 at the Battle of Iquique during the War of the Pacific.
Corbeta Esmeralda
Painting by Thomas Somerscales of the sinking of Esmeralda by Huáscar during the Battle of Iquique
Battle of Iquique
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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 a Peruvian ironclad under Miguel Grau. The ba
Chilean corvette Esmeralda
…Esmeralda was a wooden-hulled steam corvette of the Chilean Navy, launched in 1855, and sunk by the Peruvian turret ship Huáscar on 21 May 1879 at the Battle of Iquique during the War of the Pacific. Construction of the ship was authorized on 30 June 1852 by President Manuel Montt and the Minister of War and Navy José…
Commander Arturo Prat Chacón
Commander Miguel Grau.
The Sinking of Emeralda with its crew in the Naval Combat of Iquique, by Nicolás Guzmán Bustamante