for captured Peruvian sailors. Uribe returned to Valparaíso, where he was given the command of the recently captured gunboat "Pilcomayo". During the rest of the war he participated actively in all naval actions and was promoted to Commander in 1884. After the end of the war, he became Governor of Valparaíso. He promoted the creation of the Revista de Marina (Naval Magazine), and was named Navy General Commander from 1887 to 1889. After the 1891 Chilean Civil War, he was named director of the Naval Academy in 1892, position he retained until 1895. He retired from the navy on August 23, 1899. He continued writing in the Revista de Valparaíso. In 1905, President German Riesco named him Minister of War and Navy and later Valparaíso Intendant. Uribe wrote many books on naval topics, such as Code of Naval Signals, Naval Tactics, Hydrography, Project of a Naval Penal Code, History of the Chilean Merchant Marine from 1810 to 1904 and most specially Our Military Navy, a history of the Chilean Navy from its creation until 1891 and widely considered the finest history on the topic. He died in Valparaíso at the age of 67 and was intombed in the pantheon to the Heroes of Iquique. External links Official biography 1847 births 1914 deaths People from Copiapó Chilean people of Basque descent Chilean Ministers of Defense Chilean admirals Chilean military personnel of the War of the Pacific 19th-century Chilean Navy personnel