Admiral Richard Darton Thomas was an officer of the British Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and went on to become Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station in the 1840s.
Richard Darton Thomas
The Pacific Station was created in 1837 as one of the geographical military formations into which the Royal Navy divided its worldwide responsibilities. The South America Station was split into the Pacific Station and the South East Coast of America Station.
An 1830 illustration of Valparaíso Bay shows a mix of commercial and military vessels
Unknown Monmouth-class cruiser in Esquimalt Harbour, 1906
Arco Británico erected 1910 at Eleuterio Ramirez and Avenue Brasil in Valparaíso commemorates Lord Cochrane, Robert Simpson, and other founders of the Chilean Navy