Carlos Ferreyros

Carlos Ferreyros y Senra (August 12, 1843 — February 5, 1910) was a Peruvian Navy officer and politician. He was the commander of the gunboat Pilcomayo during the War of the Pacific, commanding it before its capture. He was also a Senator of the Department of Huánuco from July 28, 1907, to February 6, 1910, where he died in office.

Biography Carlos was the son of Manuel Bartolomé Ferreyros, a politician and diplomat and María Josefa Basilia de Senra y Echevarría. He was born in the city of Lima and was baptized Carlos Francisco Hipólito.

After completing his studies, he entered the Peruvian Naval School at the age of fifteen, as a midshipman, following in the footsteps of his older brother Manuel Ferreyros.

During this disaster, his younger brother Eusebio Ferreyros Senra, who was serving on the ship as a midshipman, died; his body took 37 days to be found.

In November 1868, he traveled to the United States, as a member of the crew in charge of bringing the monitors BAP Manco Cápac and BAP Atahualpa. He was appointed second commander of the latter and later became assistant to the general commander of the division, aboard the corvette BAP Unión. He was promoted to lieutenant commander in 1869 and was promoted to frigate captain in 1870 and assumed command of the schooner .

On November 17, 1879, the Pilcomayo, the Unión and the Chalaco returned to Callao by order of the Peruvian president, Mariano Ignacio Prado. However, on November 18 they were ambushed by the Chilean squad, and the Pilcomayo was pursued and captured while the other two ships managed to escape. Ferreyros wanted to burn and sink the gunboat, but the Chileans from the 3,560-ton ironclad Almirante Cochrane boarded the ship and prevented its collapse in time. Ferreyros and his crew went to Chile as prisoners of war, while the gunboat became integrated into the Chilean Navy. The news of the capture of the Pilcomayo was greeted with joy in Chile. but he died on February 6, 1910, in office of the Second Vice Presidency of his Chamber.

Personal life He was married to Rosa Ayulo Mendivil, with whom he had several children, including Manuel, Alfredo, Carlos, Alberto, Luis and Enrique Ferreyros Ayulo; the latter, founder in 1922 of the important Peruvian company Ferreyros. He also had two daughters, Rosa Ferreyros and María Isabel F. de Swayne.