Several ships of the
Argentine Navy
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have been named ARA ''Santa Fe'' after the
Santa Fe Province
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of
Argentina
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:
* , British-built (
Yarrow Shipbuilders
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, London) , one of four vessels based on the , but sunk and lost off
Uruguay
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1897.
* a launched in 1911 but sold to Greece before acceptance in 1912.
* , a built in
Italy
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and commissioned in 1933, which served until 1956 when it was scrapped.
* , the former , a submarine was acquired in 1960 and scrapped in 1974.
* , formerly , a submarine commissioned in 1971 and served until 1982 when she was captured by the
British
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during the
Falklands War
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and scuttled in 1985.
* , was a that was never completed due to the Argentine economic crisis of the 1980s.
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Argentine Navy ship names