Araucano was the 217 tons and 18-gun brigantine Columbus built 1817. She was bought in New York

New York

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 by the envoy of the Chile

Chile

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an government in the United States

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 Manuel Hemanegildo Aguirre for $33,000.

In November 1817 she was sent, fully manned and carryng a cargo of munition, under the command of Captain Charles W. Worster to Valparaíso

Valparaíso

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 where she arrived in Juni 1818.

Ch.W. Worster had commanded the privateer Saratoga during the War of 1812

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