The punishment the _Huascar_ received in this engagement was extraordinary. No fewer than twenty-seven of the heaviest projectiles fired by her opponents struck her, thirteen of the blows being severe. Two of the large shells went through her turret armour and exploded. Three others struck her conning tower. Her ’tween decks was turned into a shambles, and almost wrecked by the explosion of five heavy shells. Three times was she hit severely in the stern. The battle was fought at close range and the force of the blows inflicted must have been tremendous. Under the rain of shot and shell the wonder is that the _Huascar_ remained afloat. Had the Chilian shooting been better it is doubtful if she could have survived. The _Almirante Cochrane_ fired forty-five 9-inch Palliser shells, and twelve 20-pounder shells, besides a great number of smaller projectiles; and the _Blanco Encalada_ delivered thirty-one heavy shells. The _Huascar_ fired about forty shells, but could do little damage to her formidable antagonists. The _Cochrane_ was hit three times, but did not sustain much injury, and the _Blanco Encalada_ escaped practically unhurt. After her surrender, the _Huascar_ was patched up by the Chilians, and when she was fit to go to sea again and look for more fighting she flew the Chilian flag. Under her new owners she captured a small gunboat and participated in the blockade of Callao. She was on the effective list of the Chilian navy up to a year or two ago, and is now passing to the scrap-heap by slow and dignified stages. In the fighting off Valparaiso in April, 1891, during the Chilian Revolution, the _Blanco Encalada_ stopped a tug called the _Mary Florence_ and a torpedo boat from leaving the harbour, and the two latter, which were Government vessels, were so hotly fired upon that they were glad to return. A heavy shot from the _Blanco Encalada_ struck the _Mary Florence_ and blew her out of the water, killing the seventeen men who constituted her crew. The torpedo boat held on, but the other insurgent vessel, the _O’Higgins_, knocked her into pieces with a well-directed broadside, and her crew shared the fate of that of the _Mary Florence_. The _Blanco Encalada_ and _O’Higgins_ then turned their attention to the forts, and a lively battle followed. Although it was dark some good shooting seems to have been made, for the forts at last had the range of the _O’Higgins_, and a heavy shell struck one of the guns on her quarter-deck. The explosion shook her from end to end, and when the smoke cleared away it was found that her deck was almost torn to pieces and the gun itself was lying on the other side of the deck, while nine of the gun’s crew of twelve were either killed or blown into the water and drowned. The _O’Higgins_ was immediately taken out of range, but the _Blanco Encalada_ kept up the fight for a time without being any the worse and then retired to look after her consort.