List Of Ships Of The Argentine Navy

This list includes all major warships that entered service with the Argentine Navy since being formally established in the 1860s.In 1861 the modern Argentine Republic was born, after the Battle of Pavón. 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 ships (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 (British-built)

''Libertad''-class coastal battleships (British-built)

dreadnoughts (US-built)

Monitors

(British-built)

Cruisers

''Patagonia'' protected cruiser (Austro-Hungarian-built)

Protected Elswick cruisers (British-built)

'' Patria'' torpedo cruiser (British-built)

armoured cruisers (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 (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 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 destroyers)

(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 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)

''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

* List of auxiliary ships of the Argentine Navy

References

Notes

Bibliography

ARA official website – Surface Fleet
Naval 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

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