Canada Class Battleship Class Overview


Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Canada
(ex-Almirante Latorre)
Armstrong Elswick Works Ltd.
Newcastle-on-Tyne, England

Nov. 27, 1913
Sept. 30, 1915
Fate
Scrapped in 1959.


Notes:
Canada was ordered by the Chilean Government as Valparaiso. The name was changed
to Libertad and then to Almirante Latorre. Incomplete before the outbreak of World War 1
the ship was seized by the British and completed as HMS Canada. She was returned to
Chile in April 1920 and renamed Almirante Latorre.


Page revised Feb. 17, 2008