Shipbucket

Good morning, guys:

In the early 1970s, the Navy ordered a pair of 13,500 tons, with a single B&W diesel engine cargo ships, named Ilo and Rímac, the later was sold to CPV (the state shipping line) after launching. Ilo was during several years the main cargo ship of the Navy and when not used by the fleet was used by Oficina Naviera Comercial (a commercial branch of the Navy). In the 1990s was renamed Mollendo (ATC-131) and later, in the early 2000s once again was renamed Union (ABE-161) and during several years was used as the training ship of the Navy, with a hold modified for acomodation of naval cadets, until being replaced by an ad hoc tall ship training vessel of the same name in 2017, and subsecuently being paid-off. Cheers.

Good morning, guys:

With the winds of war against Spain, in 1865 the Peruvian Navy ordered a pair of ironclads in Britain. A turret ship, Huáscar; and a lateral battery battleship, Independencia. Built by Samuda, Independencia was armored by a 4.5 inch belt (2.5 in bow and stern) and 4.5 plates over the main battery. As built she was armed with 12 70 pounder Armstrong rifled guns in the main battery, and two 150 pounder Armstrong rifled guns in deck positions. The machinery was a compound Penn engine and cilindrical boilers. Both Peruvian ironclads arrived too late to have an active participation in the South American-Spanish war. Independencia was the backbone of the Fleet at the begining of the War of the Pacific in 1879. In her first action, in a risky gamble, she tried to ram a Chilean gunboat in shallow waters and ran aground, being completelly lost. Here is shown in 1877, as seen during the Pacocha incident.

Credits: As the only picture of Independencia with sails is an oil over canvas paint, I followed the rigging used by Darth Panda and Craig Hoefer in the excellent made drawings of Victorian era steam and sail warships. Thanks to both of them!

Cheers.


PS: If there is a wrong shading in the ram, I will be eagerly waiting your comments.

PS2: During the War of the Pacific, Independencia had the bowsprit removed, had a fixed 250 pounder Vavasseur (Blakely patent) forward, and a trainable 150 pounder Parrot at the stern; and left the steam launch at Callao (which was also named Independencia), but unfortunately, I was unable to find a picture or photograph of the vessel with that configuration.

Good afternoon, guys:

BAP Pisco, after the addition of the Spanish Scamo optical guided RWSs (2x30 mm, 4 x 12.70 mm, and mast mounted director), very different from the first renders 10 years ago. Cheers.