By Richard Kouyoumdjian Inglis*
Recently the Chilean Navy took control of the former HMAS “Melbourne” and HMAS “Newcastle” and renamed them “Capitán Prat” and “Almirante Latorre”, replacing the type L class frigates that had the same names and that Chile had bought from the Royal Netherlands Navy in 2005 and that were decommissioned in Talcahuano at the end of 2019.
