CANADA (ex Almirante Latorre), (Nov., 1913.)

• Displacement, 28,000 tons (about 32,000 full load).
• Complement (1176)
• Length (p.p.), 625 feet. Beam, 92.5 feet., Mean draught, 29 feet, Max. draught 32 feet. Length (over all). 661 feet.
• Guns (Elswick): 10 - 14 inch, 45 cal. Dir. Con. ; 12 - 6 inch 50 cal. Dir. Con.; 2 - 3 inch (anti-aircraft); 4 - 3 pdr.; (2 landing); 4 M.G.
• Torpedo tubes (21 inch): 4 submerged
• Vertical Armour : 9" Lower Belt ; 7" Middle Belt ; 4½" Upper Belt ; 6" - 4" Belt (ends) ; 4½", 4" Bulkheads (f. & a.) ; 6" Battery * ; 10" Barbettes ; 10" - " Gunhouses ; 3" C.T. Base * ; 11" C.T. (6" - 3" Hood) ; 6" Fore Com. Tube ; 6" Torp. C.T. ; 6" After Com. Tube. * Not shown on plans.
• Deck Armour : 1" Shelter (over casemates) ; 1" Fo'xle (over Battery) ; 1½ Upper (outside battery) ;1½ " Main (Aft) ; 1" Protective ; 2" (forward) lower ; 4" (aft) Lower.
• Special protection : 2" - 1½" Internal Screens (mags., &c.)
• Machinery : Turbine, 4 - shaft : (L.P.) Parsons ; (H.P.) Brown-Curtis. Boilers : 21 Yarrow. Designed H. P. 37,000 = 22.75 kts.
• Coal : normal, 1150 tons ; maximum, 3300 tons. Oil : 520 tons.

Gunnery Notes: 14 inch have a range only limited by max. visibility. Originally had 16 - 6 inch, but the 2 - 6 inch on upper deck, abeam of after funnel, were removed and ports plated over. Reason for removal was because guns were only a few feet from muzzle of " Q " turret 14-inch guns on extreme bearing and were damaged by blast. Fourteen 6-inch are shown on plans ; two more 6-inch have been removed, but from which positions is not yet known.

Armour Notes: Barbettes, 6" and 4" as they descend behind belts.

Engineering Notes: Notes.-Reported that the Chilean Ministry of Marine stipulated, at the last moment. that full speed should be attained without using forced draught. Funnels were accordingly raised to increase natural draught. Reported to have made 23 - 24 kts. in service.

Torpedo Notes: Tubes are 21 inch Elswick side-loading, worked by hydraulic power.

• Name: Canada
• Builder: Elswick
• Machinery: Clydebank
• Laid down: Nov. '11
• Completed: Sep. '15
• Trials: 39247 = -
• Boilers: Yarrow
• Best recent speed: -

General Notes.-Laid down for Chile as the Valparaiso, her name being altered afterwards to Almirante Latorre. Purchased for British Navy on outbreak of War. Additional protection, &c., added during war is said to have raised her normal displacement to over 30,000 tons. First designed with secondary battery of 22 - 4.7 inch, and 2 stump masts abeam aft. Her sister ship, Almirante Cochrane, also taken over for British Navy, re-named Eagle and modified for service as an Aircraft Carrier.

Ahead: 4 - 14 in., 4 - 8 4 in. ; Broadside: 10 - 14 in., 6 or 7 - 6 in., 2 - 2 in. tubes ; Astern 4 - 4 in., 3-6 4 in.

Source: As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships © for 1919 - Page 51

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