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Janequeo is a female Mapudungun name and the name of a famous woman who defeated the Spaniards during the War of Arauco. Several ships of the Chilean Navy have been named Janequeo

  • Janequeo (1836), Ex-brigantine Isaac Macen [1]
  • Janequeo (1879), torpedoboat sunk off Callao, [2]
  • Janequeo (1881) torpedoboat to replace the 1879 boat lost off Callao [3]
  • Janequeo (1929) ATA-70, a tug [4]
  • Janequeo (1943) ATF-65, a tug of the Abnaki class tug, Ex-USS ATF 109 Potowatomi, sunk on 15 August 1965 with a lost of 55 men [5]
  • Janequeo (1974) a tug [6]


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