Chilean schooner Colo Colo (1830)
At the end of the Chilean Civil War of 1829–1830 the government decided to buy the brigantine-schooner "Flora" to confront a new attack of insurgents. She was renamed Colo Colo. She brought Claudio Gay to the Juan Fernández Islands and realized hydrographic survey at the coasts of Chile. War of the Confederation. In August 1836 the Chilean insurgent Ramón Freire, with the support of the government of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation, sailed bound for Chiloé to promote a revolution in Chile but he was betrayed and captured. The Chilean government sent the "Colo Colo  and the Aquiles" under command of Pedro Angulo bound for El Callao in order to retaliate the Peruvian attempt to intervene in the Chilean affairs. The "Colo Colo" remained in Arica and the "Aquiles" continued to Lima and captured the schooner "Peruviana", brigantine "Arequipeño" and the barque "Santa Cruz" in El Callao so easily and quietly that the local authorities did not realize until next morning that the "Aquiles" set sailed away carrying with her the Confederation's navy. Voyage to Easter Island and Australia in 1837. On 8 March 1837, under the command of Teniente de Marina Leoncio Señoret , the "Colo Colo" sailed off from Valparaíso bound for Juan Fernández Islands, where she brought aboard the jailed leaders of the opposition to be banned in Australia. Thus, the "Colo Colo" was the first Chilean ship to visit the Easter Island. On 14 November 1837, a naval Confederation force tried to liberate Ramón Freire from Juan Fernández Islands.