Torpedo boats in the War of the Pacific

Clements Robert Markham, later president of the Royal Geographical Society, an English eyewitness of the War of the Pacific stated: With the exception of Vedette, all boat names are of Mapudungun provenance.

During the War of the Pacific the Chilean Navy bought ten torpedo boats from the Yarrow of Poplar shipyard.

1879 the Peruvian Government bought three torpedo boats: Alay, Alianza and República from the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States,[4] although R. V. Simpson states that the third boat was never delivered to Perú.

Both boats were scuttled Alianza aftermath the Battle of Arica in June 1880 and República in January 1881 in the Blockade of Callao, to prevent their capture by the Chilean forces.

In Chile she was renamed Guacolda and commissioned into the Chilean navy and fought in the Blockade of Callao between April of 1880 and January of 1881.