 The Peruvian ship successfully outran the device.On 16 January 1878, the Turkish steamer "Intibah" became the first vessel to be sunk by self-propelled torpedoes, launched from torpedo boats operating from the tender under the command of Stepan Osipovich Makarov during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78.In another early use of the torpedo, Chilean frigate was sunk on 23 April 1891 by a torpedo from the gunboat , during the 1891 Chilean Civil War.