As a result of the negotiations between the United Kingdom and Chile was the Chilean navy to be strengthened with the battleship Canada, a destroyer of 1,800 tons an a transport. During the First World War purchased the United Kingdom the two battleships build for Chile. One of these battleship was the Canada (1) which was now at last handed over to Chile while the destroyer and the transport were a compensation for the second battleship.
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1. J.J. Colledge/Ben Warlow. Ships of the Royal Navy. London, 2006. She was purchased on 9 September 1914 after being launched at Armstrong on 27 November 1913. With a displacement of 28,000 tons and as main dimensions 661 (over all) x 92,5” was her main armament in British service 10-14” guns and 14-6pdrs. According to Colledge was she resold to Chile in May 1920 and rename Almirante Latorre (her original name) and in 1959 in Japan broken up.
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chilean_battleship_Almirante_Latorre. Laid down at Armstrong-Whitworth, Elswick 27 November 1911, commissioned in British naval service 15 October 1915 and decommissioned in March 1919. Displacement of 25,000 long tons/25,401 tons standard and 32,000 long tons/32,514tons full load with as dimensions 625 x 92.5 x 33’. Her engines and 21 Yarrow boilers supplied 37,000 ship allowing a speed of 22,75 knots. Her armour consisted of a 9’ belt, a 1.5” deck while the barbette and gun turrets were protected by 10” and the conning tower by 11”. She was described as a super-dreadnought battleship. Her sister ship was the Almirante Cochrane which was taken into British naval service as the HMS Eagle, launched on 8 June 1918 and sunk by the German submarine U 73 in the western Mediterranean on 11 August 1942.
See also http://www.suite101.com/content/the-battleships-of-chile-a15205
