Ships Mentioned
- HM hired hydrographical vessel Surprise - twenty-eight gun frigate
- Ringle - Surprise's tender
- Asp - ex-Royal Navy; being re-fitted in Chile
- USS Delaware - Captain Lodge
- Isaac Newton - a converted packet ("the Lisbon packet"); carrying some Members of the Royal Society
- O'Higgins - ancient heavy frigate ex Spanish navy (name afterwards changed to San Martin)
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