Paquete de Maule
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=PaqueteMaule.jpg |Ship caption= Paquete de Maule }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country= Chile |Ship flag=Image:Naval Jack of Chile.svg |Ship name= Paquete de Maule |Ship ordered= |Ship completed= 1861 |Ship builder= Lawrence & Foulks (NY) |Ship original cost= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched= |Ship commissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= 1861 |Ship out of service= 1866 |Ship renamed= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship honours= |Ship captured= 6 March 1866 |Ship fate= Captured by Spanish Navy during the Chincha Islands War |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header=title |Ship country= Spain |Ship flag=Image:Naval jack of Spain.svg |Ship name= |Ship ordered= |Ship builder= |Ship original cost= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched= |Ship commissioned= 6 March 1866 |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship honours= |Ship captured= |Ship fate= Burned and scuttled 10 May 1866 |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship type= Sidewheel steamer |Ship class= |Ship tons burthen= 407 tons |Ship length= {{convert|165|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship beam= {{convert|29|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship draught= |Ship draft= {{convert|8|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} |Ship hold depth= {{convert|9|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship propulsion= 2 × {{convert|32|in|cm|abbr=on}} cylinder, {{convert|8|ft|m|abbr=on}} stroke vertical beam steam engines; 2 × flue boilers in hold, no blowers |Ship sail plan= Brig |Ship speed= |Ship complement= |Ship armament=*Chile: None
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Paquete de Maule (also spelled Paquette de Maule and Paquete del Maule) was a small merchant sidewheel steamer built in the United States in 1861 for operation along the Chilean coast. Converted into a gunboat for service during the Chincha Islands War, she was captured by Spain and scuttled shortly thereafter.
Construction and design
Paquete de Maule, a 400-ton sidewheel steamer, was built by Lawrence & Foulks in 1861 at Williamsburg, New York for G. K. Stevenson & Co., who planned to operate the vessel between Valparaiso and Maule, Chile.Frazer, p. 42.
Paquete de Maule was 165 feet long, with a beam of 29 feet, depth of hold 9 feet, and draft of 8 feet 6 inches. She was built of white oak and locust, with square frames fastened with copper and treenails, and strengthened with diagonal and double laid braces. She was powered by a pair of 32-inch cylinder, 8-foot stroke vertical beam steam engines built by the Neptune Iron Works of New York, driving two {{convert|24|ft|m|adj=mid|-diameter}} wooden sidewheels. Steam was supplied by a pair of flue boilers without blowers, located in the hold. The vessel was also brig-rigged for auxiliary sail power.
Career
{{Main|Capture of the Paquete de Maule}}
During the Chincha Islands War, the Paquete del Maule served as an auxiliary ship to the Chilean fleet and was not armed. On March 6, 1866, while en route from Lota to Montevideo with a crew of 126 men destined to complete the crews of the ironclads Huáscar and Independencia, she was captured by the Spanish screw frigate {{ship|Spanish frigate|Reina Blanca||2}} and armoured frigate {{ship|Spanish ironclad|Numancia||2}} at the Gulf of Arauco.{{cite news |title=SOUTH AMERICA.; High-handed Movements in Bolivia--Miscellaneous. CENTRAL AMERICA. Revolution in Panama--Bogus Canal and Railroad Companies-The Barbacoas Gold Mines-The Mines a Failure-All the Miners Anxious to Return--Over One Hundred already Returned to Panama--Naval Matters. |date=10 April 1866 |work=New York Times |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F07E4DC1631EF34BC4852DFB266838D679FDE |access-date=2 January 2010 | first=Our | last=Own}}
On 10 May 1866, after the Battle of Callao, the Paquete del Maule was burned and scuttled by the Spanish near San Lorenzo Island off the coast of Peru because they chose not to take her with them on their postwar withdrawal from South American waters.
See also
References
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Bibliography
- {{Cite web |url=http://www.armada.cl/armada/tradicion-e-historia/unidades-historicas/p/vapor-paquete-del-maule-1u/2014-02-14/110337.html |title=Paquete del Maule, vapor (1º) |access-date= 1 January 2010 |author=Armada de Chile |author-link=Chilean Navy |work=Unidades Navales Históricas |language=es }}
- Frazer, John F. (Ed.) (1863): Journal of the Franklin Institute, Volume XLV, January–June 1863, [https://books.google.com/books?id=k-QGAAAAYAAJ&q=paquette&pg=PA42 p. 42], Franklin Institute, Philadelphia.
- {{Cite web |url=http://www.revistamarina.cl/revistas/1997/1/garcia.pdf|title=LA CAMPAÑA DEL PACIFICO (1862-1866) |access-date= 1 January 2010 |last=García Martínez |first=José Ramón |year=1997 |work=Revista de Marina |language=es }}
- {{Cite web |url=http://historicaltextarchive.com/books.php?action=toc&bid=16 |title=Chile: A Brief Naval History |access-date= 1 January 2010 |last=López Urrutia |first=Carlos |work=Historical Text Archive }}
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Category:Ships built by Lawrence & Foulks
Category:Gunboats of the Spanish Navy
Category:Chincha Islands War ships
Category:Maritime incidents in 1866