High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Canada was a battleship, sometimes misidentified as a member of the Iron Duke-class originally ordered by the government of Chile as Valparaiso. Before launching, the ship's name was changed in honour of Juan José Latorre Benavente. Incomplete at the outbreak of the First World War, she was purchased by the British government in September 1914, completed and re-named HMS Canada. After the war she was refitted and sold to Chile and served from 1921 as Almirante Latorre.