Chilean frigate O'Higgins (1816)

Chilean frigate O'Higgins (1816)
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Model of the Frigate O'Higgins shown in the Museo Naval y Marítimo of the Chilean Navy
Career (Russia) Flag of Russia.svg
Name: Patrikii
Builder: Shipyard in Arkhangelsk
Launched: 3. Jule 1816
Fate: sold to Spain
Career (Spain) Flag of Spain.svg
Name: María Isabel
Acquired: 17. August 1817
Captured: 20. October 1818
Fate: captured by Chile in Talcahuano
Career (Chile) Chilean Ensign
Name: O'Higgins
Namesake: Bernardo O'Higgins
Commissioned: October 1818
Renamed: María Isabel (1823)
Status: sold to Argentina
Career (Argentina)
Name: Buenos Aires
Namesake: Buenos Aires
Commissioned: 1826
Fate: sunk in Cape Horn
General characteristics
Class and type: Russian Speshniy class frigate
Displacement: 1220 t
Length: 48,6 m
Beam: 12,7m
Draft: 3,9m
Propulsion: sail
Crew: 288-430 men
Armament: 40-50 guns

O'Higgins was a Chilean frigate famous for her actions under Captain Lord Cochrane.

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Russian career

The ship was launched in Russia in 1816, as Patrikii and was sold to Spain in 1817 and renamed to María Isabel.

Spanish career

In 1818, still as María Isabel, she sailed under captain Dionisio Capas with a convoy to the coast of Peru but she was captured in Talcahuano by the First Chilean Navy Squadron.

Chilean career

The vessel was afterwards named O'Higgins after Bernardo O'Higgins, the South American Independentist leader and first Chilean head of state.

She was the flagship of Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald naval commander of the Liberating Expedition to Perú and sailed up to Acapulco.

1823, after O'Higgins was deposed by a conservative coup on January 28, the new government (of Ramón Freire) renamed the frigate María Isabel again.[1]

Argentine career

She was sold to Argentina on 1. April 1826 and refittet in Valparaíso, but she never reached Buenos Aires. She sunk rounding Cape Horn.[2]

References

  1. ^ Website of the Chilean Navy O´Higgins, fragata (1º), retrieved 28. January 2011
  2. ^ Gerardo Etcheverry, Principales naves de guerra a vela hispanoamericanas, retrieved 28. January 2011

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