O'Higgins (Chilean frigate)
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O'Higgins was a Chilean frigate famous for her actions under Captain Lord Cochrane. She was a heavy frigate of 44 guns and 1200 tons sailing under the Chilean flag. O'Higgins was built in Russia in 1816, as Patrikii and was sold to Spain in 1817, renamed to María Isabel. In 1819 she sailed with a convoy to the coast of Peru, where the captain Dionisio Capas surrendered the ship without a fight to a Chilean privateer. The vessel was afterwards named after Bernardo O'Higgins, the South American Independentist leader and first Chilean head of state. O'Higgins was lost at sea in 1826.
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