The ''Buenos Aires''-class destroyers were a group of destroyers built for the Argentine Navy in Britain in the 1930s.

Design

The ships were based on the contemporary G-class destroyers building for the

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, with some modifications to suit Argentine requirements. After

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these ships were modified by installing two single hand-worked Bofors guns between the funnels replacing the original anti-aircraft machine guns, and two twin air-cooled Bofors unique to the Argentine and Swedish navies (instead of the more common water-cooled mounts) replacing the after bank of torpedo tubes. Radar and sonar were also fitted at this time and ''Santa Cruz'' landed the "B" gun in favor of a pair of

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anti-submarine weapons. Anti-submarine weaponry was further improved with 4 throwers and 2 stern tracks.

Ships

Operational history

ARA ''Corrientes'' collided with cruiser ARA ''Almirante Brown'' in the fog during naval exercises and sank on 3 October 1941, 54 nm northeast of Mar del Plata. On 19 September 1955, ''San Luis'', ''San Juan'' and ''Entre Rios'' supported the cruiser ARA Nueve ''de Julio'' when the latter shelled and destroyed fuel depots at the port of Mar del Plata, in the course of the Revolucion Libertadora. The destroyers' fire kept at bay a group of armed civilians and soldiers attempting to storm the local naval base. Some civilian property was damaged. The destroyer force also shelled the headquarters of the Army Antiaircraft School, north of the city, some hours later.

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Destroyers ("Destructores (Tambien llamados Torpederos)") – Histarmar website
(accessed 2017-02-04) {{G and H class destroyer Destroyer classes World War II destroyers of Argentina Argentina–United Kingdom military relations