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The corvette ''Abtao'' was a wooden ship built in Scotland during 1864 of 1.600 tons and 800 IHP.〔There are some differences between the data given by Carlos Urrutia Lopez, ''"Historia de la Marina de Chile", Editorial Andrés Bello, 1969, page 406, (url ) and the data from the Chilean Navy website (Abtao, corbeta (1º) )〕 She fought in the War of the Pacific and was in service for the Chilean Navy until 1922. == Two hulls in Glasgow == During the Chincha Islands War, the Chilean Government sent her agent in Belgium Manuel Carvallo to British shipyards in search of unsold warships originally laid down for the Confederate States Navy; He found in Glasgow and Greenock, at the River Clyde the hulls of the 1600 tons commerce-raider ''Texas'' (not the ironclad ''CSS Texas'') and the 1200 tons ''Pampero''. In order to conceal the true owner of the ship and to elude the Foreign Enlistment Act, several names were used for the ships.〔 Both ships used the name ''Pampero'' but the 1600 tons ''Texas'' was also named ''Cyclone'' and finally ''Abtao'' and the 1200 tons true original ''Pampero'' was also named ''Canton'' and finally ''Tornado'' under Spanish command. The 1600 tons hull was christened ''Pampero'' by a Mrs. Galbraith and launched on October 29, 1863.〔http://www.whenliverpoolwasdixie.co.uk/pamp.htm〕 Through the efforts of the American counsul in Glasgow, Warner Underwood, she was placed under a 24-hour scrutiny by British customs officers and as late as January 1865 she was still considered to be Confederate property, and apparently remained so until the end of the American Civil War. She was purchased by Chile for 75,000 Pounds through Isaac Campbell & Co.in January or February 1866.〔 Robert Winthrop Simpson in behalf of the Chilean Government ordered both ships, ''Pampero'' and ''Texas'' to be manned in Hamburg and later to the Faroe Islands. The ''Texas'' arrived at Valparaiso in November 1866 and was rechristened as ''Abtao'' after the Naval Battle of Abtao. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chilean corvette Abtao (1866)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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