Several ships of the Chilean Navy have been named ''Lautaro'' after

Lautaro Lautaro (Anglicized as 'Levtaru') ( arn, Lef-Traru " swift hawk") (; 1534? – April 29, 1557) was a young Mapuche toqui known for leading the indigenous resistance against Spanish conquest in Chile and developing the tactics that would conti ...

, a

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leader during the

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. * (1818–1828), of the

First Chilean Navy Squadron The First Chilean Navy Squadron was the heterogeneous naval force that terminated Spanish colonial rule in the Pacific and protagonized the most important naval actions of in the Latin American wars of independence. The Chilean revolutionary gover ...

, formerly the British East Indiaman ''Windham''. * (1865–1866), a steamer. * (1898–1954), a sailing frigate. * (1880–1910), a tug, later renamed ''Milcavi''. * (1910–?), a tug. * (1941–1945), formerly the German barque ''Priwall'', built 1917. * (1947–1991), a patrol boat, formerly the Sotoyomo-class Fleet Tug USS ''ATA-122''. A ship of the Compañía Sudamericana de Vapores: * (1872–1902), a steamship, renamed ''Lautaro'' and sunk off

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during the War of the Thousand Days.

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