Chilean ship Casma (1889)
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| Name: | Aquila |
| Owner: | Fratelli Lavarello fu G. B., Genova |
| Builder: | Wigham Richardson |
| Launched: | 1889 |
| Fate: | Sold to Chile (Balmaceda forces) in 1891 |
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| Name: | Casma |
| Namesake: | Naval battle of Casma |
| Acquired: | 1891 |
| Commissioned: | 1892 |
| Fate: | Lent to Ecuador in 1905 |
 Ecuador
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| Name: | Marañón |
| Namesake: | Marañón River |
| Commissioned: | 1905 |
| Decommissioned: | 1908 |
| Fate: | Back to Chile |
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| Name: | Casma |
| Commissioned: | 1908 |
| Fate: | Sunk in Picton Channel on 2 January 1917 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 2,627 t |
| Length: | 103.5 m |
| Beam: | 12 m |
| Propulsion: | 2.750 HP |
| Speed: | 17 kn |
The Casma was an auxiliary ship of the Chilean Navy.
The Casma was bought in Buenos Aires by the Chilean Government of Jose Manuel Balmaceda during the 1891 Chilean Civil War. However, as with the French built armored cruisers Presidente Pinto and Presidente Errázuriz, and the battleship Capitán Prat, they were detained abroad and were not involved in the civil war. It was only after the war ended, in 1892, that the ship was handed over to the Chilean Navy.
In 1905 the Casma was lent to the Ecuadorian Navy to be used as a training ship, though in 1908 she was returned to Chile in exchange for the torpedo gunboat Almirante Simpson.
In a 1911 accident, a boat was run over by the Casma with the propellor killing all six members of the boat's crew.
In 1916 eight members of the German light cruiser SMS Dresden, four members of the steamship Göttingen and sixteen cadets of the barque Herzogin Cecilie, who were interned on Quiriquina Island for the duration of the war, escaped on board of the cutter Tinto bound for Germany. Francis Stronge, British Minister Plenipotentiary at Santiago, Chile, requested that the Chilean Government attempt to recapture the Germans in fulfillment of Chile's obligations as a neutral country.
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