Almirante Latorre was a dreadnought battleship built for the Chilean Navy and named after Juan José Latorre. Chile ordered it from Armstrong Whitworth on 2 November 1911, in response to the warship purchases of its South American rivals, and it was laid down at the Elswick yard on 27 November 1911, becoming the largest ship Armstrong had built up to that time. It was launched on 27 November 1913. The Royal Navy bought it while it was approaching completion, and it served with the Grand Fleet as HMS Canada from September 1915 and saw action at the Battle of Jutland. Chile repurchased the ship in 1920, renamed it Almirante Latorre and made it the flagship of its fleet, and it was modernized in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1931. Crewmen aboard it began the mutiny of September 1931. It was decommissioned in October 1958 and sold to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in 1959 to be scrapped in Japan.
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The contract to build the battleships was awarded to Armstrong Whitworth on 25 July 1911
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Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne soon after the ship was ordered in November 1911
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Almirante Latorre was launched on 27 November 1913
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was a dreadnought battleship built for the Chilean Navy
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Almirante Latorre was scrapped in Japan beginning in 1959
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replacing the ship's steam turbine engines
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The contract to build the battleships was awarded to Armstrong Whitworth on 25 July 1911
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Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne soon after the ship was ordered in November 1911
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