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Built at Elswick, by Armstrong-Whitworth .
Design notes: Original secondary armament was to be 22 X 4.7". This was changed to 16 X 6", then reduced to 12 X 6". Design somewhat similar to Iron Duke class, but lightly larger and mounted 14" guns instead of the 10 X 13.5" carred by the Iron Dukes. HISTORY ''Canada'' was part of the Grand Fleet 's ''Fourth Battle Squadron'' and took part in the Battle Of Jutland in 1916. Thereafter she was in the ''First Battle Squadron''. After the end of the war from 1919 into 1920 she was refitted at Devonport before she was returned to Chile as the ''Almirante Latorre''. In September 1931, her crew participated in a Mutiny . She was one of the last World War I battleships afloat when she was sold in 1958 and scrapped in Japan . There she was a source of fittings for the repair of the museum ship, the Japanese Battleship Mikasa which had been built in British shipyard about the same time as the ''Canada''. At the time she was bought, her sister ship, the ''Almirante Cochrane'', was also purchased for the Royal Navy. She was less complete than the ''Almirante Latorre'', and was never completed as a battleship. Instead, she laid incomplete on the slip from 1914 to 1917, when she was purchased and completed as HMS ''Eagle'' , one of the first Aircraft Carrier . As ''Eagle'' she served in World War II and was sunk in the Med while escorting one of the Malta convoys. REFERENCES
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