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The "Union" was a Peruvian corvette, originally ordered to be built by the government of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War and which during its service participated in the Spanish-South American War
and in the War of the Pacific.
It had a teak wood hull, nailed and clad in copper, reinforced to the waterline with iron plates. It had corvette rigging, mixed, barbet battery.
Armament in 1879:
1.10 xVoruz 162mm guns
2.2 x Armstrong 40 pound guns
3.2 x Parrott 30 pound guns
