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''Chacabuco'' was a 20-gun corvette of 450 tons built in 1815 in Boston, USA. She came to Coquimbo as ''Avon'' and was bought by investors of Copiapó, Chile, in order to be used as privateer vessel under the name ''Coquimbo''.〔William L. Neumann, ''United States Aid to the Chilean Wars of Independence'', The Hispanic American Historical Review, Volume 27, 1947, pp. 204-219〕 But as the businessmen drew back, the Chilean government bought the ship on 20 June 1818 for $36,000. She was renamed ''Chacabuco'' and commissioned to the Navy under the command of Captain Francisco Díaz.〔 In October 1818 she participated with the First Chilean Navy Squadron under the command of Manuel Blanco Encalada in the campaign to deter the Spanish convoy of the frigate ''María Isabel''. She was not involved in the capture of the frigate in Talcahuano, but on 18 November she captured the Spanish transporters ''Jerezana'', ''Carlota'' and ''Rosalía'' of the convoy. On 24 March 1819, during the second blockade of Callao she captured the Spanish sloop ''Moctezuma''. In 1826 she set sail with ''Galvarino'', ''Aquiles'', and ''Lautaro'' from Corral under the command of Manuel Blanco Encalada in order to capture the last Spanish enclave in South America, Chiloé, commanded by Antonio de Quintanilla. The ''Chacabuco'' was sold to Argentina on 1 April 1826 together with ''O'Higgins'' and . Out of the three she was the only one to reach Buenos Aires. (The ''O'Higgins'' sunk rounding Cape Horn and the ''Independencia'' sunk in Talcahuano but was refloated and sold to Peru). ==References== 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 Chacabuco (1815)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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