Susana Iduya (coauthor), Michelle Prain (Editor) British Legacy in Valparaíso, Santiago, Ril Editores, 2011.
“The British contribution to the formation and development of the Chilean Navy is beyond any doubt. It was particularly important in the war of independence, and regained its vitality in the second half of the nineteenth-century through officer exchanges and shipbuilding, putting Chilean Navy personnel in contact with Great Britain. In the second decade of the twentieth century, in addition to the aforementioned naval constructions, a mission of British naval advisors and instructors that lasted until 1932, was set up in Chile. Subsequently, these type of contacts diminished due to the economic crisis and the emergence of American influence. In the 1960s ships were built again for Chile in the United Kingdom, and from 1975 on the organization of professional courses and training in the UK was intensified. There has been more than two hundred years of an intense bilateral naval relationship, part of which is described in this book.”