South American Battleships 1908–59: Brazil, Argentina and Chile’s great dreadnought race (New Vanguard)

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In 1908 the most improbable naval arms race in history started. Flush with cash from rubber and coffee, Brazil determined to order three of the recent, greatest category of warship to be had–the dreadnought battleship. One Brazilian dreadnought on its own could defeat the combined gunnery of each other warship of all of the other South American nations. Brazil’s decision triggered its neighbor Argentina to order its own brace of dreadnoughts, which in turn forced Chile (which had fought boundary disputes with Argentina) to order some.

In the process, the South American dreadnought mania drove the three participants nearly into insolvency, led to the bankruptcy of a huge shipyard, and triggered a chain of events which led Turkey to declare war on Great Britain. It also produced several groundbreaking dreadnought designs and one of the vital world’s first aircraft carriers.

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