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	Peruvian Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Peruvian Navy (Marina de Guerra del Perú) is the branch of the Peruvian Armed Forces tasked with surveillance, patrol and defense on lakes, rivers and the Pacific Ocean up to 200 nautical miles from the peruvian littoral.
		The breakout of the Pacific War (1879-1883) caught the Peruvian Navy unprepared and with inferior forces in comparison with the Chilean Navy.
		The Peruvian Navy: the XIX Century Maritime Campaigns — a series of articles covering the history of the 19th century Peruvian Navy by Juan del Campo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peruvian_Navy (785 words)

	Military of Peru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Navy (Marina de Guerra) is organized in six naval zones headquartered in Piura, Lima, Arequipa, Puno, Puerto Maldonado and Iquitos.
		The Pacific fleet flasgship is the cruiser BAP Almirante Grau (CLM-81), named for the XIX-century peruvian admiral which fought in the War of the Pacific (1879-1883).
		On May 20, 1929, the aviation divisions of the Peruvian army and navy were merged into the Peruvian Aviation Corps (CAP, Cuerpo de Aviación del Peru).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_of_Peru (545 words)

	CHILE-PERUVIAN WAR - LoveToKnow Article on CHILE-PERUVIAN WAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Early in the action a shot destroyed the Peruvians conning tower, killing Grau and his staff, and another entered her turret, killing the flag captain and n~trly all the crew of the turret guns.
		The navy co-operated with its longrange guns, on the 7th of June a general assault was made, and before nightfall the whole of the defences were in the hands of the Chileans.
		The resistance of the Peruvians was so far broken that Chile left only a small army of occupation to deal with the remnants of their army.
	29.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CH/CHILE_PERUVIAN_WAR.htm (1228 words)

	Guided Missile Cruiser Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ LaunchBase.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The British Royal Navy, with maritime responsibilities in almost all the major oceans of the world, from Canada to Australia, was particularly fond of cruisers.
		The Royal Navy quickly scrapped most of theirs after the war, and upgraded the armor on the rest to the limited extent that was possible.
		The United States Navy, the Russian Navy, and the Peruvian Navy (with a relic kept for historical purposes, the Almirante Grau) are the only remaining navies which operate cruisers.
	www.launchbase.com /encyclopedia/Guided_missile_cruiser (1992 words)

	Martin Javier Roca Casas v. Peru, Case 11.233, Report Nº 39/97
		The report was sent to the Peruvian State on June 11, 1997 with a request that information regarding the measures adopted to comply with the Commission's recommendations be presented within a period of three months, calculated from the date of transmittal.
		The response of the Peruvian State of September 12th, did not address the issue of the measures adopted to comply with the Commission's recommendations, as set forth in article 51 of the American Convention, but was limited to disputing the admissibility of the case.
		In any event, the Commission must remind the Peruvian State that given the links between the domestic remedies problem and violation of human rights per se, it is evident that the question of their prior exhaustion must be considered together with the merits.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/cases/1997/peru39-97.html (7815 words)

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		An interesting chapter in Peru’s rich maritime history is related to the activities of the Navy during the first 70 years of the Republic and is worth remembering and studying, because it contributed to the development of modern naval warfare.
		Most people are not aware that Peru's XIX Century Navy had the first war-steamer in the Americas after the United States, neither that another Peruvian steam frigate was the first Latin American warship to sail around the world, or that the Peruvians designed and developed the first Latin American submarine.
		Peruvian sailors were also able diplomats, and following the steps of American Commodore Perry, they sailed to the Far East to sign treaties with the Emperors of Japan and China, making Peru the second country in the American continent to establish diplomatic relations and trade agreements with those Empires.
	members.lycos.co.uk /Juan39/PERUVIAN_MARITIME_CAMPAIGNS.html (1039 words)

	The Peruvian Navy 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Despite the fact that the Independence was twice as big, Huascar´s artillery damaged the funnel of the ironclad and killed one of her crew, escaping unharmed.
		Two days after the battle Huascar finally surrender to the legal Peruvian authorities, but before he was arrested, de Pierola tried to persuade the commander of the ironclad Independence to join him to fight de Horsey's squadron for his participation in a Peruvian affair.
		However, the Peruvian press protested vehemently against the action of the British Admiral in Peru`s territorial waters and President Prado was forced to present a formal diplomatic protest to the British Government.
	www.cronab.demon.co.uk /peru1.htm (2289 words)

	Special Report: Iquitos, Peru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The Peruvian Amazon port of Iquitos is one of the biggest cities on the river, and the last major trade hub before the Brazilian border some 300 kilometers downstream.
		The Navy asserts that it is the legitimate owner of the land, having bought the 750 hectares now under military control in 1955 from a local patron who maintained timber and sugar operations there.
		The approximately 20 new bases--six from the Navy and the rest from the army--flank the river in either direction from Estrecho: west toward the Ecuadorian border and east toward the Colombian "trapezoid," a 150-kilometer panhandle of Colombian territory that drops south from the Putumayo to the Amazon and the port of Leticia.
	www.wbai.org /artman/publish/printer_613.php (2814 words)

	The Peruvian Navy, History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		In October of 1821 the Peruvian Navy was officially established, and Scotish-born Navy Captain Jorge Martin Guise became its first Commander in Chief.
		After the conflict however, the Peruvian fleet, in critical condition, was reduced to its minimal expression in 18 years: only two warships, the Vigilante, a 79-ton pailebot armed with one gun and the 650-ton frigate Limea (ex Santa Cruz), armed with 20 guns.
		The powerful Peruvian squadron, under Rear Admiral Ignacio Mariategui, composed by the warships and transports Marline, Ucayali, Tumbes, Callao, Amazonas, Guise, General Plaza, Carlota, Rodrigo, Iquique, Arica and Valparaiso, did not have problems to block and to siege the Ecuadorian first port, Guayaquil, which it did in November 1859.
	www.cronab.demon.co.uk /peruh.htm (1047 words)

	August 1998 Engineer Update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The dedication ceremony was a big event in Peru with Cesar Saucedo Chavez, the Peruvian Defense Minister; Gen. Nicolas Hermoza Rios, Chairman of the Peruvian Joint Chiefs of Staff; Dennis Jett, the U.S. Ambassador to Peru; and Gen. Charles Wilhelm, SOUTHCOM Commander, all in attendance.
		The Joint Peruvian Riverine Training Center is an integral part of a program started as a joint effort between the Peruvian and U.S. governments to train forces in riverine operations and tactics.
		The U.S. government's objective is to support the Peruvian government in developing its capability to tackle new challenges in the battle against drug trafficking.
	www.hq.usace.army.mil /cepa/pubs/sep98/story5.htm (558 words)

	Marines deployed to Peruvian Amazon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The Peruvian Congress has authorized the Marine operation at the Peruvian navy's Nanay base on the banks of the Amazon near Iquitos, 650 miles northeast of Lima.
		Peruvian press reports maintain the Marines aboard the dock landing ship USS Portland would be testing areas in Peru for a military base to help Colombia fight drug traffickers and the leftist guerrilla group FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
		Iquitos is the easternmost Peruvian city in the Amazon region, some 120 miles in a straight line from the southern border of Colombia.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/750941/posts (494 words)

	Peruvian Navy
		Flag of the Navy (ceremonial and indoor usage)
		Album 1995 [pie95] says ratio is ≅5:7 and shows a blue flag with the emblem of the Navy in the middle and thing yellow orle (line near the border).
		The naval emblem consists of the shield of the national coat of arms infront of the two crossed anchors, at the top the Sun and above all a ribbon with inscription «
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/pe~m.html (417 words)

	Peruvia
		Peruvians Abusing Peruvians: New York's Newsday continues with their investigation on the 69 Peruvians who were caught up in a human smuggling ring in Long Island.
		Peruvian Complains in the Philippines: The Philippines' Freeman runs a whole article on Ana Maria Espinoza, a Peruvian delegate to the international meeting of veterinarians in Cebu who "complained to Philippine Airlines about her luggage having been pilfered" at the Mactan Cebu International Airport.
		Peruvian with Zampoña in USA Airforce: The USA Air Force Link reports on Airman Fredy Pasco, of the 22nd Maintenance Operations Squadron, may be "the only zampoña player" in the Air Force.
	peruvia.blogspot.com /2004_07_04_peruvia_archive.html (7005 words)

	MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
		The Peruvian Navy arrested and escorted to the port of Callao, the country’s main sea terminal nine Chinese vessels with a total 192 crew members and charged them with illegal fishing.
		In Lima the Peruvian Navy’s Pacific Unit anticipated the poachers would have to pay a fine “no less than 2,5 million US dollars”, and described the massive arrest as “one not seen the fifties”.
		The Peruvian Embassy in Beijing said it could not comment on the status of the arrested fishermen or on how bilateral talks were evolving.
	www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=4689 (664 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Peruvian navy 'tortured recruits'
		The congress in Peru is investigating allegations that navy recruits were tortured during military training.
		The head of the congress defence commission, Gilberto Diaz Peralta, told the BBC that the matter was under investigation, but that he believed it was an isolated case.
		However, the director of the Peruvian branch of the human-rights group Amnesty International, Teresa Carpio, said the alleged abuses had been going on for years but that sailors had been too frightened to speak out because of threats to their families.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/2212602.stm (459 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Their partiality for the hardware is understandable, it is the only one used in the Navy and its usefulness in patient diagnosis makes it particularly desirable for Navy Medicine.
		While our Peruvian colleagues have had access to more advanced [American] scientific and research technologies, we have gained from their considerable local experience and knowledge." The Lima facility has a satellite laboratory in Iquitos, Peru, in the jungle at the head of the Amazon River.
		It was the first for any Navy hospital in the continental United States and marked the beginning of a superior method of training Fleet Hospital staff for what may be encountered during a deployment.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/news/mednews/med99/med99006.txt (2623 words)

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		By the end of the 1980s, the Peruvian Navy had replaced that of Chile as the third largest in Latin America, behind only Brazil and Argentina.
		The Peruvian Navy is composed of the Pacific Naval Force, the Amazon River Force and the Titicaca Lake force.
		These ships are the most important component of Peru's surface navy because of their speed, versatility and recent construction.
	members.lycos.co.uk /Juan39/TODAYS_NAVY.html (635 words)

	Wednesday, August 1, 2001
		The first joint exercise ever held between U.S. surface warships and the Peruvian navy’s diesel submarine fleet wrapped up July 27 with shore leave in Callao, Peru, for sailors from the Aegis cruiser USS Ticonderoga and the guided missile frigates USS Rodney M. Davis and USS Halyburton.
		Sailors arrived at Peru’s main navy base in Callao, near the nation’s capital of Lima on July 27, after their weeklong engagement with three Peruvian diesel submarines and a Lupo-class frigate.
		But danger lurked directly ahead — the Peruvian submarines were lying in wait at the harbor’s outlet, ready to pounce on the exiting ships, Barker said.
	www.stripes.com /01/aug01/ed080101j.html (669 words)

	Peruvian Navy Ships--America (Corvette, 1864-1868)
		America, an 1827-ton steam corvette, was originally ordered in France by the Confederate Navy, which expected to name her Georgia.
		She was wrecked on 13 August 1868 at Arica, Peru (later part of Chile), by the same tidal wave that stranded the U.S. gunboat Wateree.
		The Peruvian corvette America is partially visible in the distance.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/peru/peru-ag/america.htm (336 words)

	Silent Force Exercise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Hosted by the Peruvian Navy, SIFOREX was designed as an undersea warfare exercise and included three Peruvian Diesel Submarines, two Peruvian Lupo-class frigates and the U.S. Guided Missile Cruiser USS Ticonderoga (CV 47) and Guided Missile Frigate USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG 60).
		The Peruvian Navy was chosen for the exercise based on their expert use of diesel subs and their reputation as the best submariners in South America.
		The Peruvian navy provided more submarines, training, personnel and equipment for the exercise than was originally expected.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/siforex.htm (352 words)

	AllRefer.com - Peru - Navy \| Peruvian Information Resource
		Reporting directly to the commander in chief of the navy were the chief of staff and the commanders of the Pacific Naval Force, Amazon River Force, Callao Naval Base, and the Naval Studies Center (Centro de Estudios Navales--CEN).
		The other submarines were former United States Navy craft that had been refitted and transferred to the Peruvian Navy.
		One was a Guppy IA class launched in 1944 and acquired from the United States Navy in 1975, with ten twenty-one-inch torpedo tubes and a personnel complement of eighty-four.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/peru/peru155.html (952 words)

	Conservationalist 11/01:
		The Peruvian navy is the governmental office responsible for law enforcement with regards to marine fauna.
		During the seminars, the legislative aspects of the protection of marine fauna are addressed, as the Peruvian Navy is the governmental office responsible for law
		One-hundred seventy-six maritime authorities from eight offices of DICAPI, Peruvian Navy office, assisted with the environmental educational seminars, addressing the legislative and policy issues for conservation.
	www.colszoo.org /Conservation/2001/connews/cn5.html (1508 words)

	MayportMirror.com: USNAVSO Receives Peruvian Award 03/03/05
		The medal was presented by Vice Adm. Juan Sierralta-Fait, Chief Staff Officer of the Peruvian Navy.
		''This is a testament to your contribution to strengthening the bonds of friendship and cooperation with the Navy of Peru,'' said Sierralta-Fait.
		The cooperation and interoperability between the U.S. and Peruvian Navy have positively and continuously developed in recent years.
	www.mayportmirror.com /stories/030305/may_usnavso001.shtml (396 words)

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