page_title: List of Peruvian Navy ships
section_title: Major warships
hierarchical_section_title: List of Peruvian Navy ships / Vessels acquired in the 1840s and 1850s / Major warships
caption_attribution_description: Pintura que pertenece a la Marina de Guerra del Perú, buque de guerra.
context_page_description: List of ships of the Peruvian Navy comprising almost every Peruvian warship commissioned after 1840.
context_section_description: Rimac (1847/8), paddlewheel steamer.  Sunk 1855, after a collision in Punta San Juan, Ica.
  Mercedes (1840s/50s) frigate
  Admiral Guise (1845?) purchased 1845, 400 ton sail brigantine.
  Gamarra (1840s/50s) frigate(?)
  Amazonas (1851) screw-frigate, 1743 tons BOM, 33 guns, 9.43 kts.  Beached at Abtao, 15 January 1866.
  Apurímac, 34 gun screw frigate, 1,666 tons – took part on the rebel side in the Peruvian civil war of 1856–8; she was renamed BAP Callao on 22 April 1858, and took part in the blockade of the  Ecuadorian port of Guayaquil; in December she was in a floating dock that capsized and sank, killing 100 people and wounding 88; she was raised at the second attempt in 1863, and then rebuilt and reverted to her original name;  she took part in the civil war of 1865, and the naval battle of Abtao against the Spanish frigates Blanca and Villa de Madrid.  From 1873 she served as a school ship, and in the Pacific War served as a pontoon at Callao until scutted to prevent capture in 1881.
caption: The screw-frigate Amazonas
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