BB - HMS Canada (1913)

HMS Canada (ex. chile's Almirante Latorre)

Type of ships: battleship
Class ships: Canada
Keel laid: 27. November 1911
Yard: Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle-on-Tyne
Run to the water: 27. November 1913
Inclusion in service: 30. September 1915
Fate: sold to Chile, 1920.

Dimensions
Length: 190,5 m (625 ft)
Width: 28,2 m (92 ft 6 in)
Draught: 8.5 m (28 ft)
Displacement standard: 25 000 tonnes
Displacement full: 32 000 tonnes

Drive:
Machines: 4 turbines Brown-Curtis
Boiler: 21 Yarrows
Power: 37 000 SHP
Speed: 22,75 knots (41 km/h)

Armament:
10 x 356 mm (14 in) guns (5 x II)
12 x 152 mm (6 in) guns
2 x 76 mm (3 in) anti-aircraft guns
4 x 57 (6 pdr in) cannon
4 x 533 (21 in) torpedo tubes

Pancéř:
Side belt: mm
Barbette: mm
head the the tower: mm
Deck: mm

Crew: 1 167 men


Charakteristika:
Chilean battleship belonging to the so-called superdreadnoughty with guns of caliber 356 mm, confiscated after the outbreak of the 1. world war the british government during construction at the shipyard of Armstrong, and assigned to the state of the Royal Navy. After the end of the war the ship was sold to its original owner.

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Sources:
es.wikipedia.org; en.wikipedia.org.
BB - HMS Canada (1913) - Věže těžkých děl HMS Canada (Almirante Latorre). Zdroj: es.wikipedia.org

Věže těžkých děl HMS Canada (Almirante Latorre). Zdroj: es.wikipedia.org
BB - HMS Canada (1913) - Bitevní loď HMS Canada (Almirante Latorre). Zdroj: es.wikipedia.org

Bitevní loď HMS Canada (Almirante Latorre). Zdroj: es.wikipedia.org
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After the first world war

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