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This list includes all major
warships
A warship or combatant ship is a naval ship that is built and primarily intended for naval warfare. Usually they belong to the armed forces of a state. As well as being armed, warships are designed to withstand damage and are usually faster and ...
that entered service with the
Argentine Navy
The Argentine Navy (ARA; es, Armada de la República Argentina). This forms the basis for the navy's ship prefix "ARA". is the navy of Argentina. It is one of the three branches of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic, together with the ...
since being formally established in the 1860s.
[In 1861 the modern ]Argentine Republic
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
was born, after the Battle of Pavón
The Battle of Pavón, a key battle of the Argentine Civil Wars, was fought in Pavón, Santa Fé Province, Argentina on 17 September 1861 between the Army of the State of Buenos Aires, commanded by Bartolomé Mitre, and the Army of Republic of ...
. It also includes ships that were purchased by Argentina but did not enter service under Argentine flag.
The list does not include vessels prior to the 1860s; and it also excludes
auxiliary ship
An auxiliary ship is a naval ship designed to support combatant ships and other naval operations. Auxiliary ships are not primary combatant vessels, though they may have some limited combat capacity, usually for purposes of self-defense.
Auxil ...
s (tugs, transports, colliers, tankers, scientific vessels, etc.) which are
listed separately.
In addition, there is a separate
list of ships currently in service with the Argentine Navy, regardless the type.
The list is organized by type of ship, by class within each type, and by entry date within each class. Service entry dates indicate the ship's commissioning into the Argentine Navy, and not the ship's entry in service with another navy unless specifically said.
Naming tradition
The current norms establish naming conventions for Argentine Navy ships according to their type, some of them specific to warships are summarized below.
;Destroyers, Frigates, Corvettes: Naval heroes, or names of significantly historic ships.
;Submarines: Province names, with priority those starting with S.
;Mine warfare ships: Province names, not used by Submarines.
;Amphibious warfare ships: Coastal geographic features.
;Fast attack ships: Adjectives symbolizing qualities of combat ships.
List of ships
Aircraft carriers
(British-built)
Battleships
''Almirante Brown''
ironclad
An ironclad is a steam engine, steam-propelled warship protected by Wrought iron, iron or steel iron armor, armor plates, constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s. The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships ...
(British-built)
''Libertad''-class
coastal battleships (British-built)
dreadnought
The dreadnought (alternatively spelled dreadnaught) was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century. The first of the kind, the Royal Navy's , had such an impact when launched in 1906 that similar battleships built after her ...
s (US-built)
Monitors
(British-built)
Cruisers
''Patagonia''
protected cruiser
Protected cruisers, a type of naval cruiser of the late-19th century, gained their description because an armoured deck offered protection for vital machine-spaces from fragments caused by shells exploding above them. Protected cruisers re ...
(Austro-Hungarian-built)
Protected
Elswick cruisers (British-built)
'' Patria''
torpedo cruiser
A torpedo cruiser is a type of warship that is armed primarily with torpedoes. The major navies began building torpedo cruisers shortly after the invention of the locomotive Whitehead torpedo in the 1860s. The development of the torpedo gave rise ...
(British-built)
armoured cruiser
The armored cruiser was a type of warship of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was designed like other types of cruisers to operate as a long-range, independent warship, capable of defeating any ship apart from a battleship and fast eno ...
s (Italian-built)
Ordered from Italian shipyards. Two ships, ''Rivadavia'' and ''Mariano Moreno'', were sold to Japan prior to completion as per
naval disarmament agreements with Chile.
''Almirante Brown''-class heavy cruisers (Italian-built)
''La Argentina'' light cruiser (British-built)
ARA ''La Argentina'' was a light cruiser, designed for training naval cadets.
''General Belgrano'' class (US )
Torpedo boats
''Maipu''-class
torpedo ram
A torpedo ram is a type of torpedo boat combining a ram with torpedo tubes. Incorporating design elements from the cruiser and the monitor, it was intended to provide small and inexpensive weapon systems for coastal defence and other littoral com ...
(British-built)
''Bathurst'' class (British-built; Yarrow 1890 type - Mod GB TB 79 type)
''Espora'' class (British-built)
1st class Thornycroft class (British-built)
2nd class Thornycroft class (British-built)
2nd class Yarrow class (British-built)
Riverine Yarrow class (British-built)
Destroyers
(British-built)
(German-built)
(German-built)
Eight other destroyers were ordered around this time but never entered service with the Argentine Navy. See (Greece) and (France).
(Spanish-built)
Ordered by the
Spanish Navy
The Spanish Navy or officially, the Armada, is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces and one of the oldest active naval forces in the world. The Spanish Navy was responsible for a number of major historic achievements in navigation, ...
and sold to Argentina prior to completion.
(British-built)
(British-built)
''Brown''/''Almirante Domecq García'' class (leased US )
''Seguí'' class (modified US )
''Py'' class (modified US )
''Hércules'' class (British
Type 42 destroyer
The Type 42 or ''Sheffield'' class, was a class of fourteen guided-missile destroyers that served in the Royal Navy.Marriott, Leo: ''Royal Navy Destroyers since 1945'', , Ian Allan Ltd, 1989 A further two ships of this class were built for and s ...
s)
(German
MEKO 360H2 type)
Frigates and corvettes
(Locally designed and built)
''Hércules'' class (/-class World War II frigates)
''República'' class ()
(Locally designed and built)
(French )
(German
MEKO 140A16
The MEKO 140 is a frigate/ corvette design by the German Blohm + Voss shipyard as part of the MEKO family of vessels. The MEKO 140 is a development of the Portuguese Navy's s designed by the Portuguese naval engineer Rogério de Oliveira in the ...
type, locally built)
Patrol, torpedo and fast attack craft
(Argentine-built)
(German-built) - known as "fast craft" ( ''lánchas rápidas'')
(Israeli-built )
(US-built )
Gunboats
''Paraná'' class (British-built) - also classified as "corvettes"
''Constitución'' class (British-built) - locally classified as "bombarderas", they were of the
Rendel gunboat type.
''Bermejo'' class (British-built) - locally classified as "bombarderas",
["Histarmar" list this class as ''Pilcomayo'' rather than ''Bermejo''.] they were of the
Rendel gunboat type.
(British-built) - armoured river gunboats
Amphibious warfare
''Cabo San Bartolome'' class (ex-United States
Landing Ship, Tank
Landing Ship, Tank (LST), or tank landing ship, is the naval designation for ships first developed during World War II (1939–1945) to support amphibious operations by carrying tanks, vehicles, cargo, and landing troops directly onto shore with ...
)
''Cabo San Antonio'' class (Locally-built ''De Soto County'')
''Cándido de Lasala'' class (ex-United States)
Mine warfare
''Bathurst'' class (German-built ''M1915'' and ''M1916'' classes)
''Neuquén'' class (British-built )
[The service entry date shown in this article is the one listed in the individual ships history, while the page cited shows an earlier date.]
(Argentine-built minesweepers/minelayers)
[The ''Bouchard'' class ships were classified as mine ''Trackers'' ( ''Rastreadores'') by the Argentine Navy.]
Submarines
By tradition, Argentine submarines bear the names of provinces whose names begin with the letter "S", thus, the pool of names is limited to only six ("Santa Fe", "Salta", "Santiago del Estero", "San Luis", "San Juan" and "Santa Cruz") resulting in repeated class and ship names.
''Santa Fe'' (1) class (Italian-built
''Tarantinos'')
''Santa Fe'' (2) class (US-built )
''Santa Fe'' (3) class (US-built
Guppy class)
''Salta'' class (German-built
Type 209)
''Santa Cruz'' class (German-built
TR-1700 type)
Six of these ships were planned by the Navy. Only the first two, built in Germany, were actually completed. The other four, to be built in Argentina, were never completed due to budgetary concerns.
Sailing warships
''La Argentina'' class (Austria-Hungary-built) formally classified as a sailing corvette
''Presidente Sarmiento'' class (British-built)
Footnotes
See also
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List of auxiliary ships of the Argentine Navy
This list includes all major auxiliary ships (transports, colliers, tankers, scientific vessels, tugs, among others) in service with the Argentine Navy since being formally established in the 1860s.In 1861 the modern Argentine Republic was born, ...
References
Notes
Bibliography
ARA official website – Surface FleetNaval ships in fleet service. (accessed 2009-09-30)
Argentine Navy Index. (accessed 2015-01-15)
Further reading
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* Burzaco, Ricardo and Ortiz, Patricio. ''Acorazados y Cruceros de la Armada Argentina, 1881–1992''. Buenos Aires: Eugenio B. Ediciones, 1997. . .
External links
* {{cite web , url= http://www.histarmar.com.ar/Armada%20Argentina/ListGralBuques900a2003.htm , title= Buques de la Armada Argentina 1900-2013 , trans-title=(List of ) Ships of the Argentine Navy 1900-2013 , language=es , website= Historia y Arqueologia Marítima (Histarmar) , publisher= Fundación Histarmar - Carlos Mey , access-date=2014-09-14
Lists of ships of Argentina