Almirante Latorre
HMS Eagle
An item reported that the superdreadnoughts built for Chilean account at the shipyard of Armstrong were named Almirante Latorre (1) and Almirante Cochrane (2) and were end 1914 or begin 1915 completed. With a displacement of 28.000 tons and a speed of 22 miles. The armament consisted of 10-35,6cm guns, 22-12cm guns and 4-53cm torpedo tubes. At the shipyard of White&Co. at Cowes was the building of six destroyers of 1.500 ton, speed 31 miles and an armament of 6-10,2cm guns and 3 torpedo tubes. In 1912 were the launched Tomé and Talcahuano sold to Romania. The two submarines Antafagasta and Iquique were being built by the shipyard of the Electric Boat Company in New York. In 1912 numbered the personnel strength 6.080 men.
Notes
1. Purchased by the British government on 9 September 1914, commissioned on 15 October a year later as the HMS Canada, in April 1920 sold back to Chile. Finally broken up in 1959.
2. Purchased by the British government on 28 February 1914, commissioned on 20 February as the carrier HMS Eagle and finally torpedoed by the German submarine U-73 on 11 August 1942 causing her sinking.
