| Name: | CANADA launched as ALMIRANTE LATORRE |
| Type: | Battleship |
| Keel: | 27/11/1911 |
| Launched: | 27/11/1913 |
| Completed: | 15/10/1915 |
| Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co |
| Yard: | Elswick |
| Yard Number: | 845 |
| Dimensions: | 28000disp, 625.0 x 92.0 x 28.5(draft)ft |
| Engines: | Steam turbines, 2 x Parsons (LP) & 2 x Brown-Curtis (HP) |
| Engines by: | Parsons, Wallsend & John Brown, Glasgow |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 23.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 5 x 2 x 14.0ins, 16 x 1 x 6.0ins, 4 x 1 x 3.0ins, 2 x 1 x 12pdr guns; |
| 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes (submerged broadside) | |
| History: | |
| 15/10/1915 | British Royal Navy |
| 27/11/1920 | Government of Chile; renamed ALMIRANTE LATORRE |
| 1959 | Broken up |
| Comments: | 27/11/1913: Launched as ALMIRANTE LATORRE for the Government of Chile |
| 09/09/1914: Aquired by the British Royal Navy; renamed CANADA | |
| 1951: Engine room explosion. Never fully repaired | |
| 1959: Broken up in Japan |
Photo as CANADA courtesy of Kevin Blair
Profile & Decks plans as CANADA courtesy of Dr Dan Saranga. Click HERE to enlarge
Photo as ALMIRANTE LATORRE courtesy of Kevin Blair