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Amid the commiseration of his friends, among whom was, of course, Terence O'Meara, Jim, together with other sick men from the flagship's crew, was put into a steam-launch and conveyed to the gunboat, from the deck of which he watched, half an hour later, while comfortably seated in a deck-chair, the departure of the Chilian squadron, consisting of the Blanco Encalada, Almirante Cochrane, O'Higgins, Chacabuco, Magellanes, and Abtao, the last-named being filled with combustibles so that she might serve, if necessary, as a fire-ship.
Immediately following this, Chili increased her navy by repurchasing the corvette Abtao a sister ship to the famous Alabama of American Civil War times built in 1864, of 1050 tons displacement, 300 horse- power, and with a nominal sea-speed of 6 knots.
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