Huáscar, Talcahuano

Huáscar is an ironclad turret ship built in Britain for Peru in the 1865. Her price was a bit more than £81,000. She was the flagship of the Peruvian Navy and participated in the Battle of Pacocha and the War of the Pacific of 1879–1883. The ship was captained by the posthumous Grand Admiral Miguel Grau Seminario, considered the greatest hero of the Peruvian nation, when he succumbed facing much superior forces and his ship was captured by the Chilean squad in the naval Battle of Angamos and commissioned into the Chilean Navy. Today she is one of the few surviving ships of her type. The ship has been restored and is a memorial ship anchored in Talcahuano, Chile. It is named after the 16th-century Inca emperor, Huáscar. It is the second oldest afloat armored in the world after HMS Warrior and the oldest monitor afloat. ()