Chilean battleship Almirante Latorre
Almirante Latorre was a super-dreadnought battleship built for the Chilean Navy. The ship was bought by the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy for use in the First World War. It served in the Grand Fleet as HMS Canada for the duration of the war and saw action during the Battle of Jutland. In 1920, Chile repurchased Canada in 1920 and renamed it AlmiranteLatorre. It underwent a thorough modernization in the United UK in 1929–1931. In September 1931, crewmen aboard the ship instigated a mutiny, which the majority of the Chilean fleet quickly joined. In 1959, the ship was scrapped in Japan beginning in 1959.
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Almirante Latorre was a super-dreadnought battleship built for the Chilean Navy. It was the first of a planned two-ship class that would respond to earlier warship purchases by other South American countries. The ship was bought by the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy for use in the First World War. It served in the Grand Fleet as HMS Canada for the duration of the war and saw action during the Battle of Jutland. In 1920, Chile repurchased Canada in 1920 and renamed it AlmiranteLatorre. It underwent a thorough modernization in the United UK in 1929–1931. In September 1931, crewmen aboard the ship instigated a mutiny, which the majority of the Chilean fleet quickly joined. It spent most of the Second World War on patrol for Chile. In 1959, the ship was scrapped in Japan beginning in 1959. The battleship was christened by the ambassador’s wife, Olga de Budga de Edwards, on November 27, 1913. It has been named after Juan José Latorra, a former president of Chile, who was killed in a plane crash in 1883. It is one of only two dreadnoughts to be named after a single person, the other being HMS Canada, which was commissioned in September 1915. The other was HMS Canada’s sister ship, HMS Canada. The warship was decommissioned and scrapped in 1986. It remains in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America, where it is being used as a training ship for Chilean naval personnel.
It also served as a presidential transport and as a museum ship. The battle ship was sold to the United States in 1941. The U.S. Navy bought the two Constitución-class battleships that were being built for Chile, and sold the two Rivadavia-class armored cruisers under construction in Italy to Japan for $1.5 million each. The two battleships were never used by the U.K. or Argentina for military service. They were sold for scrap in the 1970s and 1980s, and the ship is now listed as being in the possession of the Japanese government. The ships were not forcibly seized like other ships being built in British yards for foreign navies because the Allies’ reliance on Chilean nitrate nitrate for munitions made retention of Chile’s status as neutral a matter of vital importance for the Allies. The last battleship to be christened was the battleship Agustín Macustín Clure, christened on November 28, 1913, at an elaborate ceremony presided over by Chile’s ambassador to the UK, Agustin Macustin Clure. The Battleship was commissioned on 27 November 1913, and was laid down less than a month later. It became the largest ship built by Armstrong at the time, becoming the largest battle ship in the world at the time. It was officially ordered on 2 November 1911, and was laid down on 27 November, becoming the largest ship in the world.
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