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Description: The 140 ton Peruvian Coastguard patrol vessel "Puno" (ex-"Yapari"), sister ship to the "Yavari" and still in commission in 2007! Built by the Thames Iron Works, London in 1861-62 under contract from the James Watt Foundary, Birmingham as a gunboat for the Peruvian Navy with 2X24 pdrs for use on Lake Titicaca. Dismantled and shipped to Arica (then part of Peru), sent by train to Tacna and then on mules to Puno on Lake Titicaca and re-erected. Fought in the War of the Pacific 1879-83 between Peru, Bolivia and Chile. Originally had a Watt steam engine. At Puno11/07.
Title: Puno (ex-Yapari) (5690588618)
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