Iquique Naval Museum
Iquique Naval Museum
Thanks to the support of the Chilean Army, the Naval Museum serves its visitors in room No. 6 of the Tarapacá Military Museum since April 30, 2015. Its temporary exhibition exhibits 25 original pieces of the Emerald Corvette and one of the Huáscar monitor. Among them, the magnificent Baranda de Toldilla stands out, a piece of wood 8.25 meters long, 1.04 meters high and weighing approximately 450 kg, which shows the exact place from where Captain Arturo Prat gave his harangue Immortal to the glorious endowment of the Emerald Corvette, that day Wednesday, May 21, 1879.