Chilean Navy
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maritime warfare branch of Chile's military
Key facts
- Founded
- 1817 ; 209 years ago ( 1817 )
- Country
- Chile
- Type
- Navy
- Role
- Naval warfare
- Size
- 25,000 personnel, 133 vessels ( see list )
- Part of
- Chilean Armed Forces
- Headquarters
- Edificio Armada de Chile, Valparaiso
- Mottos
- Vencer o Morir , (" Victory or Death ")
- Colors
- Navy blue , White
- March
- Brazas a ceñir (English: "Braces to be close-hauled" )
- Anniversaries
- 21 May, Día de las Glorias Navales (Navy Day)
- Engagements
- Chilean War of Independence , Peruvian War of Independence , War of the Confederation , Chincha Islands War , War of the Pacific , Panama Crisis of 1885 , 1891 Chilean Civil War , Itata incident , Chilean naval mutiny of 1931 , World War II , 1973 Chilean coup d'état , Beagle Conflict
- Commander in chief of the navy
- Admiral Fernando Cabrera Salazar
- Notable commanders
- Lord Thomas Cochrane , Robert Winthrop Simpson , Manuel Blanco Encalada , Juan José Latorre , Arturo Prat , Carlos Condell , Patricio Lynch , Jorge Montt , John Williams Wilson , Juan Williams Rebolledo , José Toribio Merino
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Founded
- 1817
- Location
- Viña del Mar, Chile
- Status
- Active
ISNI 0000 0001 0656 8076
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Encyclopedic overview
The Chilean Navy (Spanish: Armada de Chile) is the naval warfare service branch of the Chilean Armed Forces. It is under the Ministry of National Defense. Its headquarters are at Edificio Armada de Chile, Valparaiso.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chilean Navy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.