Chilean battleship Almirante Latorre

Almirante Latorre in 1921
History
United Kingdom
Name:	Canada
Builder:	Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick
Laid down:	27 November 1911
Launched:	27 November 1913, as Almirante Latorre
Acquired:	9 September 1914
Commissioned:	15 October 1915
Decommissioned:	March 1919
Fate:	Resold to Chile, April 1920
Chile
Name:	Almirante Latorre
Acquired:	April 1920
Commissioned:	1 August 1920
Decommissioned:	October 1958
Refit:	1929–1931
Fate:	Scrapped in Japan, 1959
General characteristics
Class and type:	Almirante Latorre-class battleship
Displacement:	25,000 long tons (25,401 t) standard 32,000 long tons (32,514 t) full load
Length:	625 ft (191 m)
Beam:	92.5 ft (28.2 m)
Draught:	33 ft (10 m)
Propulsion:	21 Yarrow boilers Low pressure Parsons and High pressure Brown-Curtis steam turbines 37,000 shp (27,591 kW) Coal and oil fuel
Speed:	22.75 knots (42.13 km/h; 26.18 mph)
Complement:	834 officers and men
Armament:	10 × 14 in (356 mm)/45 caliber BL guns 16 × 6 in (152 mm) guns 2 × 3 in (76 mm) anti-aircraft guns 4 × 3-pounder guns 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (submerged)
Armor:	Belt: 9 in (230 mm) Deck: 1.5 in (38 mm) Barbette: 10 in (250 mm) Turret: 10 in (250 mm) Conning tower: 11 in (280 mm)

Almirante Latorre, named after Juan José Latorre, was a super-dreadnought battleship built for the Chilean Navy (Armada de Chile). She was the first of a planned two-ship class that would respond to earlier warship purchases by other South American countries. Construction began at Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne soon after the ship was ordered in November 1911, and was approaching completion when she was bought by the United Kingdom's Royal Navy for use in the First World War. Commissioned in September 1915, she served in the Grand Fleet as HMS Canada for the duration of the war and saw action during the Battle of Jutland.

Chile repurchased Canada in 1920. She took back her original name of Almirante Latorre, and served as the Chilean flagship and frequently as presidential transport. She underwent a thorough modernization in the United Kingdom in 1929–1931. In September 1931, crewmen aboard Almirante Latorre instigated a mutiny, which the majority of the Chilean fleet quickly joined. After divisions developed between the mutineers, the rebellion fell apart and the ships returned to government control. Almirante Latorre was placed in reserve for a time in the 1930s because of the Great Depression, but she was in good enough condition to receive interest from the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Chilean government declined the overture and the ship spent most of the Second World War on patrol for Chile. She was scrapped in Japan beginning in 1959.

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