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The list of active ships of the Argentine Navy includes ships currently[ when? ] in commission with the Navy, or operated by the Navy on behalf of other organizations.
As of the mid-2020s, there were about 40 commissioned ships in the navy, including 3 destroyers, 1 amphibious support ship and 2 submarines (though both boats were non-operational as of 2022). As of the latter 2010s, the total displacement of the fleet (including auxiliaries) was approximately 128,461 tonnes.[ citation needed ] The draft 2023 budget submitted to Congress envisages 60 days of navigation for technical and tactical naval training. These are 19 fewer days than in 2022. In contrast, in 2012 the naval force was allocated 358 sailing days. [1]
Note: As of 2023, the entire submarine fleet is inactive.
Class | Picture | No. | Boat | Commissioned | Displacement | Note |
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Submarines | ||||||
Santa Cruz | S-41 | Santa Cruz (in reserve) | 1984 | 2,264 tonnes | Reported "inactive", refit cancelled as of 2020 [2] [3] | |
Salta | S-31 | Salta (in reserve) | 1973 | 1,248 tonnes | Reported inactive as of 2020 [4] |
Note: Argentina uses the classification destructores (destroyers) for the Almirante Brown class, despite them being analogous to medium frigates by most international classifications.
Class | Picture | No. | Ship | Commissioned | Displacement | Note |
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Destroyers | ||||||
Almirante Brown | D-10 D-11 D-13 | Almirante Brown La Argentina Sarandí | 1983 1983 1984 | 3,600 tonnes | Heroína (D-12) formally retired from service in 2024 after prolonged inactivity. [5] [6] |
Class | Picture | No. | Ship | Commissioned | Displacement | Note |
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Corvettes | ||||||
Espora | P-41 P-42 P-43 P-44 P-45 P-46 | Espora Rosales Spiro Parker Robinson Gómez Roca | 1985 1986 1987 1990 2001 2004 | 1,790 tonnes | Parker being converted to the offshore patrol role as of 2021–23; second vessel also to be converted [7] [8] | |
Drummond | P-31 P-32 P-33 | Drummond (in reserve) Guerrico (in reserve) Granville | 1976 1978 1980 | 1,170 tonnes | ||
Class | Picture | No. | Ship | Commissioned | Displacement | Note |
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Offshore patrol vessels | ||||||
Gowind | P-51 P-52 P-53 P-54 | Bouchard Piedrabuena Almirante Storni Bartolomé Cordero | 2019 2021 2021 2022 | 1,650 tonnes | Last vessel, P-54, commissioned July 2022. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] | |
Murature | P-21 | King | 1946 | 1,032 tonnes | Used primarily as training vessel. [n 1] [14] [15] Sister ship Murature decommissioned September 2014 [16] | |
Fast attack craft | ||||||
Intrépida | P-85 P-86 | Intrépida Indómita | 1974 1974 | 268 tonnes | ||
Patrol boats | ||||||
Zurubí | P-55 | Zurubí | 1939 | 33 tonnes | Decommissioned in 1985, refurbished and re-commissioned in 1993. [n 2] [17] [18] | |
Baradero | P-61 P-62 P-63 P-64 | Baradero Barranqueras Clorinda Concepción del Uruguay | 1978 1978 1978 1978 | 39 tonnes | ||
Punta Mogotes | P-65 P-66 | Punta Mogotes Río Santiago | 2000 | 26.5 tonnes |
Class | Picture | No. | Ship | Commissioned | Displacement | Note |
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Amphibious support ship | ||||||
Modified Costa Sur | B-4 | Bahía San Blas | 1978 | 10,894 tonnes | Used as an amphibious cargo ship. |
Class | Picture | No. | Ship | Commissioned | Displacement | Note |
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Icebreaker | ||||||
Almirante Irízar | Q-5 | ARA Almirante Irízar (Q-5) | 1978 | 14,899 tonnes | Returned to active service in April 2017 following several years of repairs. | |
Survey vessels | ||||||
Puerto Deseado | Q-20 | Puerto Deseado | 1978 | 2,400 tonnes | ||
Austral | Q-21 | Austral | 2015 | 4,900 tonnes | ex-Sonne, operated by the Navy for the CONICET; returned to service 2021 following maintenance. [19] | |
Comodoro Rivadavia | Q-11 | Comodoro Rivadavia | 1974 | 827 tonnes | ||
Tanker | ||||||
Durance | B-1 | Patagonia | 2000 | 17,800 tonnes | ex-Durance of the French Navy. [n 3] | |
Cargo ship | ||||||
Costa Sur | B-3 | Canal Beagle | 1978 | 10,894 tonnes | ||
Tug | ||||||
Abnaki | A-3 | Francisco de Gurruchaga | 1975 | 1,731 tonnes | ||
Coastal buoy tenders | ||||||
Red | Q-61 Q-62 Q-63 | Ciudad de Zárate Ciudad de Rosario Punta Alta | 2000 2000 2000 | 525 tonnes | ||
Training ships | ||||||
Libertad | Q-2 | Libertad | 1963 | 3,765 tonnes | In service | |
Luisito | Q-51 | Luisito | 1983 | Used by the National Fishing School | ||
LICA | Ciudad de Ensenada Ciudad de Berisso | 2024 2024 [20] [21] | 282 tonnes | Officer cadet training [22] [23] [24] [25] | ||
Yacht | ||||||
Fortuna | Fortuna III | 2004 | 15 tonnes | |||
Aviso | ||||||
Teniente Olivieri | A-2 | Teniente Olivieri | 1987 | 1,640 tonnes | ||
Neftegaz | A-21 A-22 A-23 A-24 | Puerto Argentino Estrecho San Carlos Bahía Agradable Islas Malvinas | 2015 | 2.700 tonnes | ||
Museum ship | ||||||
Presidente Sarmiento | 1897 | 2,750 tonnes | She is now maintained in her original 1898 appearance as a museum ship in Puerto Madero near downtown Buenos Aires. | |||
Uruguay | 1874 | 550 tonnes | Removed from naval service in 1962, the Uruguay was in 1967 declared a National Historic Landmark. currently[ when? ] integrated since 1967 as a museum ship with the frigate ARA Presidente Sarmiento in the Museum of Sea and Navigation. [note 1] It is moored at Puerto Madero in the city of Buenos Aires, in the dock area No. 3, a short distance from Presidente Sarmiento. [27] |
The Argentine Navy is the navy of Argentina. It is one of the three branches of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic, together with the Army and the Air Force.
ARA Rosales (P-42) is the second ship of the MEKO 140A16 Espora class of six corvettes built for the Argentine Navy. The ship is the fourth ship to bear the name of Colonel (Navy) Leonardo Rosales, who fought in the Argentine Navy during Argentina's war of independence and the Cisplatine War.
ARA Parker (P-44) is the fourth ship of the MEKO 140A16 Espora class of six corvettes built for the Argentine Navy. The ship is the second ship to bear the name of Captain Enrique Guillermo Parker, who fought in the Argentine Navy as its second-in-command during the Cisplatine War.
ARA Robinson (P-45) is the fifth ship of the MEKO 140A16 Espora class of six corvettes built for the Argentine Navy. The ship is the second ship to bear the name of British Captain Carlos Robinson, who fought in the Argentine Navy during the Cisplatine War and died commanding a squadron of gunboats during the Battle of La Colonia.
The Espora-class corvettes are six warships of the Argentine Navy built in Argentina to the German MEKO 140A16 design, this in turn being based on the Portuguese João Coutinho-class project. The first entered service in 1985 but accidents and lack of funds meant the last was not completed until 2004. The ships currently form the 2nd Corvette Division of the Argentine Navy and their home port is the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base. Although considered by its designers to be frigates, the Espora-class vessels have been classed in Argentina as corvettes.
The Drummond class are three corvettes designed and built in France based on the A69 D'Estienne d'Orves-class avisos. The ships were commissioned in the Argentine Navy between 1978 and 1982.
The Rio Santiago Shipyard is a shipyard located in the city of Ensenada, Buenos Aires Province at the shores of the Santiago River. Currently owned by the Government of Buenos Aires Province, it has been one of the major active and important shipyards in Latin America. Founded in 1953, it has realized diverse functions in the naval, industrial and railroad sectors. In its golden age the shipyard reached 8,000 workers on double shift. In 2008 relies on 2,700 workers.
The corbeta (corvette) ARA Uruguay, built in England, is the largest ship afloat of its age in the Armada de la República Argentina, with more than 140 years passed since its commissioning in September 1874. The last of the legendary squadron of President Sarmiento, the Uruguay took part in revolutions, ransoms, expeditions, rescues, and was even floating headquarters of the Navy School. During its operational history 1874–1926 the Uruguay has served as a gunboat, school ship, expedition support ship, Antarctic rescue ship, fisheries base supply ship, and hydrographic survey vessel, and is now a museum ship in Buenos Aires. The ship was built in 1874 at Laird Bros. shipyard of Birkenhead, England, at a cost of £32,000. This ship is rigged to a barque sailplan. The ship's steel hull is sheathed in teak.
ARA Bahía San Blas is an amphibious cargo ship of the Argentine Navy, capable of unloading landing craft, troops, vehicles and cargo. She is the first Argentine Navy ship to bear the name of San Blas Bay of in the south of Buenos Aires Province.
ARA Granville (P-33) is a Drummond-class corvette of the Argentine Navy named after Guillermo Enrique Granville, who fought in the 1827 Battle of Juncal against Brazil.
ARA Azopardo is a World War II era Argentine Navy warship, originally classified as patrol boat and later as antisubmarine frigate. The vessel is named after Juan Bautista Azopardo, an Argentine naval officer that served in both the Argentine War of Independence and in the Cisplatine War. It is the third Argentine naval ship with this name.
ARA Piedra Buena is a World War II era Argentine Navy warship, originally classified as patrol boat and later as antisubmarine frigate. The vessel is named after Luis Piedrabuena, an Argentine mariner that explored and guarded Argentine sovereignty in Patagonia. It is the third Argentine naval ship with this name.
ARA Paraná was a steam and sail corvette built in United Kingdom in 1873 which served as a gunboat with the Argentine Navy between 1874 and 1899. It was decommissioned in 1900, converted to a transport and renamed Piedrabuena.
ARA Cormorán (Q-15) is a hydrographic survey boat of the Argentine Navy, built in the Río Santiago Shipyard and based in Buenos Aires. The vessel is named after the cormorant, a seabird that inhabits Argentina’s littoral, and is the fourth Argentine naval ship with this name.
ARA Zurubí (P-55) is a patrol boat of the Argentine Navy, built in the Río Santiago Shipyard in 1938 and based in Ushuaia. The vessel is named after the Surubí, a catfish that inhabits Argentina’s Mesopotamia, and is the first Argentine naval ship with this name.
ARA Luisito (Q-51) is a training ship of the Argentine Navy, in service since 1985 and based in Mar del Plata; where she is used to train students from Argentina’s National Fishing School. The vessel is the first Argentine naval ship with this name.
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