The accompanying tsunami drives three ships that…

The accompanying tsunami drives three ships that had been anchored in the port nearly eight hundred meters inland: the 1560-ton Peruvian corvette America, the U.S. gunboat Wateree and the U.S. store ship Fredonia, which is completely destroyed in the process.

The British brig Chañarcillo and two Chilean schooners, Rosa Rivera and Regalon, are also lost.