War of the Pacific{the Battle of Iquique}

this is a picture of the Peruvian armored turret ship Huascar sinking the Chilean corvette Esmeralda,May 21,1879. Miguel Grau the Peruvian commander asked Capitan Arturo Prat of the Esmeralda to surrender. Prat refused even though his wooden ship could do very little harm to the armored Huascar. thus the Esmeralda was destroyed with heavy loss of life while the Huascar had one person killed. Huascar is quite a famous ship she was built in England and sailed across the Atlantic and around Cape Horn to Peru. she fought a battle against the HMS Shah in which a torpedo was first launched at a warship. it failed as the ship could outrun the torpedo. the Huascar was eventually captured by the Chilean Navy after a huge battle at sea and still exists as a museum ship in the harbor at Talcahuano, Chile.