HMS Canada: The last surviving Dreadnought Battleship
to have served with the British Fleet at the North Sea
Naval Battle of Jutland in 1916.
After World War I, she became the Chilean Battleship Almirante Latorre and in 1959 she was sold to a
Japanese Scrap Merchant for disposal.
Photo: 24 December 1921.
Source: This image is available from the United States
under the digital ID cph.3c03269.
Author: Underwood & Underwood.
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Royal Navy Battleship HMS Canada
underway during World War I.
Photo: Circa 1914-1918.
Source: This photograph SP 1938 comes from the Collection
of the Imperial War Museums (Collection Number 1900-01).
Author: Surgeon Oscar Parkes.
(Wikimedia Commons)
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“Almirante Latorre”, named after Juan José Latorre, was a Dreadnought Battleship built for the Chilean Navy (Armada de Chile).
It was the first of a Planned Two-Ship Class that would respond to earlier Warship purchases by other South American Countries.
Construction began at Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, soon after the ship was ordered in November 1911, and was approaching completion when it was bought by the British Royal Navy for use in the First World War.
HMS Canada was a Royal Navy Dreadnought
Battleship that the Chilean Government had ordered
as “Almirante Latorre”.
She was launched in 1913, but the British
Government purchased her in 1914 after the outbreak
of the First World War.
The British Government resold her to Chile in 1920,
and, as “Almirante Latorre”, she served the Chilean Navy
until she was broken up in Japan in 1959.
Note: The Ship’s Bulldog Mascot (“Brutus”)
in the Left-Hand 14-inch Gun Barrel.
Date: 26 July 2020.
Source: Battleship HMS Canada.
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Commissioned in September 1915, she served in The Grand Fleet as The Royal Navy’s Dreadnought Battleship, HMS Canada, for the duration of the War and saw Action during The Battle of Jutland.
Chile re-purchased HMS Canada in 1920 and re-named it “Almirante Latorre”.
Chile re-purchased HMS Canada in 1920 and re-named it “Almirante Latorre”.
The ship was designated as the Chilean Navy’s Flagship, and frequently served as a Presidential Transport.
Captain Ley, commanding HMS Canada,
persuades the Ship’s Mascot (“Brutus”) to pose for
a portrait. HMS Canada’s Aft 14-inch Guns are in the background, trained to Starboard.
Photo: February 1917.
Source: This image is available from Library and Archives Canada under the reproduction reference number PA-006497 and under the MIKAN ID number 3398281.
This File: 15 June 2014.
User: Rcbutcher
Author: Castle, W. I. (William Ivor),
Official Canadian War Photographer.
(Wikimedia Commons)
She underwent a thorough modernisation in The United Kingdom in 1929 – 1931.
In September 1931, crewmen aboard “Almirante Latorre” instigated a Mutiny, which the majority of the Chilean Fleet quickly joined.
After divisions developed between the Mutineers, the rebellion fell apart and the Ships returned to Government control.
The Crew of HMS Canada.
Photo: Circa 1914-1920.
Source: This image is available from Library and Archives Canada under the reproduction reference number PA-066816 and under the MIKAN ID number 3393726.
This File: 11 June 2014.
User: Rcbutcher
Author: Not stated. Assumed to be Royal Navy.
(Wikimedia Commons)
“Almirante Latorre” was placed in Reserve for a time in the 1930s, because of the Great Depression, but it was in good enough condition to receive interest from the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Chilean Government declined the overture and the ship spent most of the Second World War on Naval Patrol for Chile.
“Almirante Latorre”, the last Royal Navy Dreadnought Battleship to have fought at The Battle of Jutland in 1916, was scrapped in Japan in 1959.
