Turkey wanted to buy Argentinean battleship Moreno according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsch nieuwsblad dated 14 February 1914

An item dated Paris, France 13th reported that the Turkish cabinet again negotiated over buying the battleship built at New York, USA for Argentinean account.(1) During trials on yesterday and the day before became clear that the turbines were not wrong fitted. A large British firm supervised the negotiations going on between Argentina and Turkey. The purchase was to be financed with money by German financers lent to Turkey.

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1. The Moreno, of the Rivadavia-class consisting of the Rivadavia and the Moreno. Built as response of Brazil building the Minas Geraes-class. Chile responded on the Brazilian and Argentinean new building of dreadnoughts by ordering in the United Kingdom the building of the Almirante Latorre-class, consisting of two dreadnoughts. Laid down by the New York Shipbuilding, Camden, New Jersey, USA on 9 July 1910, launched on 23 September 1911, completed on 15 February 1915, part of the reserve in 1923, modernized in the USA 1923-1924 including from coal to oil fuelling, decommissioned in 1949, served as barracks, prison ship in 1955, stricken on 1 October 1956, sold on 11 January 1957 to the Yawata Iron and Steel Company, towed by the Dutch tugs Clyde and Ocean Moreno towards Japan where she arrived on 17 August 1957