- 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 NavyCareer (Russia) 
Name: Patrikii Builder: Shipyard in Arkhangelsk Launched: 3. Jule 1816 Fate: sold to Spain Career (Spain) 
Name: María Isabel Acquired: 17. August 1817 Captured: 20. October 1818 Fate: captured by Chile in Talcahuano Career (Chile) 
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
- ^ Website of the Chilean Navy O´Higgins, fragata (1º), retrieved 28. January 2011
- ^ Gerardo Etcheverry, Principales naves de guerra a vela hispanoamericanas, retrieved 28. January 2011
External links
Categories:- Frigates of Chile
- First Chilean Navy Squadron
- Shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean
- Maritime incidents in 1826
- 1810s ships
- Naval ship stubs
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