Some Peruvian Navy vessels 1890 - 2020.

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Good morning, gentlemen!
The frigate Apurimac was built in Britain (Blackwalll) in 1854 and was the main warship in MGP until the arrival of the French built corvettes in 1865. She was a well armed frigate, with 44 guns, most of them of Paixhans type. Apurimac was the flagship of the Peruvian Squadron at Abtao despite being mastless for that battle. During the 1870s she was a sailing training ship and was scuttled after the fall of Lima in 1881. Cheers.

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Good morning, guys!

The very first vessel of the Peruvian Navy (which predates to the formal independent nation) was the schooner Sacramento, an armed royal (Spanish) mail ship with regular service between Panama and Callao. She was captured by the pilot and the rest of the crew off- Paita in 1821. Shown here with the first pattern of the Peruvian flag. Cheers.


NB: Despite having a model in the Naval Museum at Callao, there are no specs other than the displacement and the number and weight of the anchors. I followed the description of the sail rig given by the captors (with the exception of the square sail in the fore mast, which is lacking in all the representations of a Spanish schooner of late XVIII and early XIX, only fore and aft sails; in fact, the only schooner with a square sail and not topsails was an american revenue cutter of the first decade of the XIX century ), but for the hull form and mast colocation, I followed closelly the lines of a Spanish schooner of early XIX century. My appologies for the expected inaccuracies.

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With the wealth given by the guano exports, the Peruvian government ordered in 1844 a pair of sailing brigs at the Austrian harbour of Trieste (an Austrian -in strict sense, Italian- built vessel is a rather odd choice for a South American Pacific coast country, specially in the first half of the XIX century), named Guisse and Gamarra, with a displacement of 450 tons and armed with 16 x 12 pounder guns. In 1849 Gamarra was sent to California during the Gold Rush, for bringing home peruvian vessels left off in San Francisco by their crews. Cheers.




NB: I am ending with the (sail only) tallships . I am trying to find the frigate Prueba/Protector/Presidente (the last frigate class built in Spain prior to the Napoleonic wars), but without luck (fruitless even in the Naval Museum at Madrid). If someone can help me, I will be very thankful.

[eswube]

Great to see more sail and 19th-century steam warships!

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And some of these are as little known as your Bolivian ships !

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Good morning, gentlemen:

Ucayali (namesake for the Amazon river before the confluence with Marañón) was a paddle steamer built in Kingston, Canada as HMS Cherokee for service in the Great Lakes. Sold in 1857 to Perú, and used as a transport (despite being armed with 18 pounder SBML guns in Royal Navy service) until after the Spanish-South American War of 1866. Cheers.

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Good evening, guys.

The Boston Whaler 37-ft is the most numerous riverine interceptor boat of the Peruvian Coast Guard. Use mainly in the Putumayo river, is heavily armed for her size. Cheers.

[Hood]

Very nice additions.

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Thanks for your feedback, Hood!



Shortly after the end of WWII, a wooden hull tugboat (USS ATR-31) with a steam reciporcating engine, of the ATR-1 class, was transfered to the Peruvian Navy and named Condestable Selendon, with the numeral Q1; later the hull number was changed to 21, and finally the name was shortened just to Selendon. She was paid-off in the mid 1960s. Cheers.

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Good morning:

MGP was an user of the prolific Sotoyomo class rescue tugboats. She was supporting diving operations until bein replaced by BAP Morales (qv) in 2017. Shown here as in 1988 during the rescue of the rammed Guppy class submarine Pacocha. Cheers.