Yeah....it's the Minas Geraes. Scrapped in 1954. There were some other South American battleships too, all of British origin I believe.

Speaking of obscure capital ships it always broke my heart that the Turkish battleship Yavuz was scrapped in 1972. She was the ex-German battlecruiser Goeben of World War One fame and was the last remaining fragment of the Imperial German Navy. She served as a museum ship in Istanbul for many years with just a petty officer and his cat as crew. Shame they let her go.

http://pyxis.homestead.com/Yavuz.jpg

Yes, it is a shame how few of those old ships were saved from the scrapyard, Especially the ones with long histories like the Yavuz Sultan Selim, or one or two of the WWI vintage British BBs, HMS Warspite would've been a worthy museum ship, so would most of them really.

The US has understood this somewhat more, they seem to have a lot of vintage Capital ships lying around, although even they couldn't save all the notable ships and made some sad oversights in not saving at least one of every class, that's what I would've decided on :cry:

Meh, If I someday win a lottery or two I might have someone build me a replica of some famous ship as a yacht :D any suggestions on which

As for south american BBs... I think the Argentinians had 2 built in the US
And post WWII we (the dutch) sold two of our old-ish cruisers, one to both Peru and Chile, that way the arms race was kept equal :D