The Almirante Latorre-class battleships were ordered as part of a larger South American dreadnought race. Unfortunately for the Chileans, construction only began in Britain a year before WWI, so the British paid for and seized the Chilean ships for their war effort. Latorre was completed and served as HMS Canada, seeing action in the Battle of Jutland; it was sold to Chile after the war in 1920, and the ship served into the 1950s. Cochrane, which was much less complete than Latorre when taken over by the British, was converted into an aircraft carrier and served with the Royal Navy until being sunk in WWII.
- Contributor(s): The ed17, Sturmvogel 66
Clearly in-scope for a featured topic. The second article uses the original Chilean name for the ship because this is a topic about the Chilean battleship class. See also Wikipedia:Featured topic removal candidates/Minas Geraes-class battleships/archive1. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:25, 18 July 2015 (UTC) -- Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:25, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
- Support per my comments at the FTRC discussion Ed linked. Parsecboy ( talk) 20:47, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
- Support Meets the criteria. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:49, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
- Support as per my comments at the FTRC. -- Pres N 20:09, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
- Closed with a consensus to promote to Featured Topic. - GamerPro64 19:58, 17 August 2015 (UTC)