Converted into a gunboat for service during the Chincha Islands War, she was captured by Spain and scuttled shortly thereafter.

She was built of white oak and locust, with square frames fastened with copper and treenails, and strengthened with diagonal and double laid braces.

She was powered by a pair of 32-inch cylinder, 8-foot stroke vertical beam steam engines built by the Neptune Iron Works of New York, driving two 24-foot-diameter (7.3 m) wooden sidewheels.

[1] During the Chincha Islands War, the Paquete del Maule served as an auxiliary ship to the Chilean fleet and she was not armed.

[2] On 10 May 1866, after the Battle of Callao, the Paquete del Maule was burned and scuttled by the Spanish near San Lorenzo Osland off the coast of Peru because they chose not to take her with them on their postwar withdrawal from South American waters.