Chilean brigantine Araucano

Araucano was the 217^[1] tons and 18-gun brigantine Columbus built 1817. She was bought in New York by the envoy of the Chilean government in the United States Manuel Hemanegildo Aguirre for $33,000.

In November 1817 she was sent, fully manned and carryng a cargo of munition, under the command of Captain Charles W. Worster to Valparaíso where she arrived in Juni 1818.^[2](p20)

Ch.W. Worster had commanded the privateer Saratoga during the War of 1812.

References

1. ^ William L. Neumann, United States Aid to the Chilean Wars of Independence, The Hispanic American Historical Review, Volume 27, 1947, pp. 204-219
2. ^ Vale, Brian, 'Cochrane in the Pacific', I. B. Tauris 2008

See also

• First Chilean Navy Squadron