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The Almirante Latorre (named after the Chilean Admiral Juan José Latorre Benavente) was a battleship which served with the Chilean Navy from after World War I through World War II into the late 1950s. Vice Admiral Juan José Latorre Juan José Latorre Benavente (Santiago; March 24, 1846 - July 9, 1912) Chilean Vice Admiral, one of the principal actors of the War of the Pacific, and hero of the Battle of Angamos. ...
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Combatants Allied Powers: Russian Empire France British Empire Italy United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Commanders Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Franz...
Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States France Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Charles de Gaulle Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hirohito Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead...
The Latorre was ordered from and built by the British shipyard of Armstrong Whitworth to a design of Armstrongs Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt. At the outbreak of World War I she was purchased by the British for service in the Royal Navy and completed as HMS Canada. Her sister ship the Almirante Cochrane was less far forward in construction, and was purchased at a lesser price in 1917 to be converted into an aircraft carrier, HMS Eagle. After the war, Latorre was delivered to Chile in 1921 for a price of one million pounds (about half her original cost) after refitting. Eagle was not repurchased. Latorre was well maintained in Chilean service, and after the outbreak of World War II, she even tendered an offer from the United States to purchase her. The offer was declined however. Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd was a major British manufacturing company of the early years of the 20th century. ...
Eustace Tennyson dEyncourt Sir Eustace Henry William Tennyson-DEyncourt, 1st Baronet (1 April 1868 – 1 February 1951) was a British naval architect and engineer. ...
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Four aircraft carriers, Principe-de-Asturias, USS Wasp, USS Forrestal and HMS Invincible (front-to-back), showing the difference in size between a supercarrier, light V/STOL carriers, and an amphibious carrier. ...
HMS Eagle was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy sunk during World War II. The Eagle was laid down at the Armstrong yards at Newcastle-on-Tyne on February 20, 1913. ...
Lack of modernization resulted in the range of the main batteries being poor, and her armor only gave protection roughly equivalent to World War II battlecruisers. Despite this, she was respected internationally, partially due to the reputation of the Chilean Navy.
With the exception of the British cruiser HMS Caroline, she was the last survivor of the Battle of Jutland afloat, until scrapped in Japan in 1958. The Chilean Government has granted Japanese request to use parts from this ship to restore the Battleship Mikasa, which was in severe state of desrepair since the end of World War II, so many parts from the Almirante Latorre can now be seen aboard the Battleship Mikasa. Mikasa (三笠) was a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the flagship of Admiral Togo Heihachiro during the battle of Tsushima (1905) in the Russo-Japanese War. ...
Mikasa (三笠) was a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the flagship of Admiral Togo Heihachiro during the battle of Tsushima (1905) in the Russo-Japanese War. ...
Specifications
Built at Elswick, by Armstrong-Whitworth. Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd was a major British manufacturing company of the early years of the 20th century. ...
- Laid down: November, 1911
- Launched: November, 1913
- Completed: September, 1915.
- Displacement: 25,000 tons standard; about 32,000 tons fully loaded.
- Length: 625 feet
- beam: 92 feet 6 inch
- draught: 33 feet maximum.
- Armament:
- Ten 14 inch guns in 5 turrets
- Twelve 6 inch guns,
- Two 3 inch anti-aircraft guns,
- Four 3 pounder guns
- Four 21 inch Torpedo tubes (submerged).
- Machinery:
- 21 Yarrow boilers.
- Low pressure Parsons and High pressure Brown-Curtis turbines.
- Fuel: coal and oil.
- Performance:
- Power: 37,000 shp (39,247 shp during trials)
- Speed: 22.75 kt.
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