On 6 March 1866 , during the Chincha Islands War , the Spanish steam frigate `` Blanca '' captured Conquering the Chilean sidewheel steamer Paquete de Maule in the Gulf of Arauco .

`` Paquete de Maule '' was a 400-ton sidewheel steamer built Building by Lawrence & Foulks in 1861 at Williamsburg , New York for G. K. Stevenson & Co. , who planned Arranging to operate Being_in_operation the vessel between Valparaiso and Maule .