Chile refused to sell her British-built dreadnought according to the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 13 January 1913

Almirante Latorre

An item dated Santiago di Chili dated 11 January reported that the Admiralty Council refused to sale the Chilean dreadnought built in England as was proposed by an European power.(1)

Note

1. Chile ordered two dreadnoughts to built by the shipyard of Armstrong. One the Almirante Latorre was launched on 27 November 1913 and purchased by England after the outbreak of the First World War, the second dreadnought the Almirante Cochrane was still a hulk when the war broke out and the building was stopped. She was in 1918 purchased by England. The European power was probably Greece which was arming herself against the Ottoman empire.