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Almirante Latorre-class battleship : ウィキペディア英語版 | Almirante Latorre-class battleship
The ''Almirante Latorre'' class consisted of two super-dreadnought battleships designed by the British company Armstrong Whitworth for the Chilean Navy. They were intended to be Chile's entries to the South American dreadnought race, but both were purchased by the Royal Navy prior to completion for use in the First World War. Only one, (), was finished as a battleship; (), was converted to an aircraft carrier. Under their Chilean names, they honored Admirals (''Almirante''s) Juan José Latorre and Thomas Cochrane; they took their British names from the dominion and a traditional ship name in the Royal Navy. At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, Chile was engaged in an intense naval competition with its neighbor Argentina. This ended peacefully in 1902, but less than a decade later Argentina responded to Brazil's order for two dreadnoughts with two of its own. The Chilean congress responded by allocating money for its own dreadnoughts, which were ordered from the United Kingdom despite a strong push from the American government for the contracts, probably due to Chile's traditionally strong ties with the British. ''Almirante Latorre'', which was closer to completion than its sister, was bought in 1914 and commissioned into British service as HMS ''Canada'' in October 1915. The ship spent its wartime service with the Grand Fleet, seeing action in the Battle of Jutland. After the war, HMS ''Canada'' was put into reserve before being sold back to Chile in 1920 as ''Almirante Latorre''. The crew of the battleship instigated a naval mutiny in 1931. After several years of inactivity, the ship underwent a major refit in the United Kingdom in 1937, later allowing it to patrol Chile's coast during the Second World War. After a boiler room fire and a short stint as a prison ship, ''Almirante'' ''Latorre'' was scrapped in 1959. After ''Almirante Cochrane'' was purchased by the British in 1918, it was decided to convert the ship into an aircraft carrier. After numerous delays, ''Almirante Cochrane'' was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS ''Eagle'' in February 1924. It served in the Mediterranean Fleet and on the China Station in the inter-war period, and operated in the Atlantic and Mediterranean during the Second World War before being sunk in August 1942 during Operation Pedestal. == Background ==
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