Chilean cruiser Chacabuco (1898)

Chacabuco was a protected cruiser of the Chilean Navy with a remarkably long and varied career that spanned nearly half a century. Armstrong Whitworth built her as a private venture to a typical Elswick cruiser design and launched her on 4 July 1898 under the provisional name Fourth of July, and Chile bought her in 1902, just before the end of the Argentine and Chilean naval arms race. The Japanese cruiser Takasago was her sister ship. She did patrol and hydrographic work, helped keep order after the 1906 Valparaiso earthquake, took part in the Santa Maria School massacre of 1907, visited Britain for the 1911 fleet review, and brought relief after the 1922 Vallenar earthquake. Brought out of reserve in 1941 and modernised with six 6 inch guns, she was flagship and then a midshipmen training cruiser, left service in December 1950 and was sold for scrapping.