to a draw. Rear Admiral De Horsey was requested by the British Parliament as a result of this incident, the news of which went around the world and filled the Peruvian sailors with pride. It was important because it was the first time a self-propelled Whitehead torpedo was used in combat, which was later used by the Russians during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. On the firsts of the occasions this torpedo was useless, because in the day it was easy to dodge them, as easy as the British ships avoided the Huáscar spur, although the Russians managed to sink the Turkish steam Intibah. The combat also proved the inefficiency of the English cruisers, even though they had a well-trained crew, which as a whole was superior to that of the Huáscar (837 men versus 179), advantage in powerful guns and attack from two flanks at the same time. It was shown that it was necessary for these types of cruisers to have some armored protection, giving rise to the so-called protected cruisers, although Chile and France navies were the first to have this type of ship. The Huáscar also used self-propelled torpedoes during the War of the Pacific in the :es:Segundo Combate de Antofagasta in 1879, but it was the north-american Lay torpedo system, which was electrically directed with wires but never had a successful application. And, the first time a self-propelled torpedo was successfully used against a warship was in a night action, paradoxically the Huáscar witnessed the event, when the Blanco Encalada armored vessel was sunk in 1891, by two torpedo-gunboat destroyers that fired 5 self-propelled torpedoes, hitting the last one. References External links Britons And Peruvians Fight At Sea Naval battles involving the United Kingdom Naval battles involving Peru Conflicts in 1877 International maritime incidents Peru–United Kingdom relations Maritime incidents in May 1877