HMS Hecate ( 1809 ) HMS " Hecate " was a Royal Navy 18 - gun , built by John King at Upnor and launched in 1809 . After serving in the British Navy , essentially entirely in the East Indies , she served in the Chilean Navy as " Galvarino " from 1818 until she was broken up in 1828 . Royal Navy service . " Hecate " was commissioned in 1809 under Commander William Buchanan . Commander Edward Wallis Hoare replaced him in October and sailed for the East Indies on 31 October . In 1810 , Lieutenant George Rennie became acting commander and " Hecate " was detailed for service with the squadron under Admiral Albemarle Bertie engaged in the Invasion of Île de France . In 1814 she would share in the prize money resulting from the capture of the island . In 1811 she was under Commander Thomas Graham until July , when Commander Henry John Peachey assumed command . From 3 August she was part of the fleet involved in the invasion of Java , which ended with the surrender of Dutch and French forces on 16 September . For this service all of her crew who had survived to 1847 and chose to were entitled to claim the Naval General Service Medal with clasp " Java " . In 1815 " Hecate " also shared in the prize money arising out of the invasion . Peachey was promoted to post - captain on 7 August 1812 and removed to . Lieutenant William Case may have followed Peachey as acting commander , but then the newly - promoted Commander Case took command of " Samarang " , and Commander Joseph Drury transferred from " Samarang " to " Hecate " . At some point in 1812 pirates from the Sultanate of Sambas , in western Borneo , captured nine sailors from " Hecate " and killed or enslaved them , after cutting their hamstrings or otherwise mutilating them . In June 1813 " Hecate " participated in a punitive expedition against the Sultanate of Sambas . " Hecate " sailed for Madras in January 1814 and her next commander , from 4 February 1814 , was Commander John Allen . On 20 November 1815 command passed to John Reynolds . " Hecate " arrived in Portsmouth on 17 August 1816 , from Trincomalee , which she had left on 20 March . She had sailed via the Cape of Good Hope and Saint Helena . On 22 May 1817 the Admiralty offered " Hecate " , then lying at Portsmouth , for sale . Chilean Navy service . On 30 October 1817 the Admiralty sold " Hecate " to Mr . Parkin for £860 . In Buenos Aires she was also known as the name " Lucy " . She was resold to the Chilean Revolutionary government , arriving in Chile on 9 November 1818 under the command of Captain Guise . She served the new Chilean Navy as " Galvarino " , first under Captain Spry ( until Admiral Thomas Cochrane dismissed him ) and then under Captain Winter . On 2 October 1819 she was at the second attack on Callao where a lieutenant onboard was killed by Spanish fire . In 1821 , while under the command of Captain I . Esmond , her crew mutinied and refused to go to sea until they had received their back pay and prize money . She participated in the Freedom Expedition of Perú , but after the final confrontation between San Martín and Cochrane and the subsequent loss of many officers and seamen to the new Peruvian Navy , the " Lautaro " and " Galvarino " were sent back to Valparaíso to ease the demand for seamen . Fate . She was broken up 1828 .