Above, ammunition and other relics from the Peruvian ironclad Independence, found in the waters of Punta Gruesa, were the ship was sunk (Photo, courtesy Mr, Jorge Felipe Keyer). Below, two 68-pound Voruz guns from the corvette Union. The first picture shows the guns, as they were found, at the heights of the San Cristobal Hill, in Lima. They were taken from the ship and used for the defense of the capital during the battles of San Juan and Miraflores, in January 1881.
At the bottom, the guns, as they can be seen today, around the mast that belonged to the corvette, in the Peruvian Naval Academy. Both guns were cleaned and restored by the members of the naval brigade "Combatientes del Pacifico" (Photos, courtesy of Commander Reynaldo T. Pizzaro, Peruvian Navy).
