List of active Argentine Navy ships

The list of active ships of the Argentine Navy includes ships currently in commission with the Navy, or operated by the Navy on behalf of other organizations.

As of 2015, there are 42 commissioned ships in the navy, including 4 destroyers, 2 amphibious support ships and 3 submarines. The total displacement of the fleet (including auxiliaries) is approximately 128,461 tonnes.

Argentine naval ensign.

Warships

Submarines

Note: The submarine fleet is suffering from lack of maintenance and training. The submarines accumulated a total of only 19 hours submerged in 2012 against a minimum requirement of 190 days.^[1]

Class	Picture	No.	Boat	Commissioned	Displacement	Note
Submarines (3 in service)
Santa Cruz		S-41 S-42	Santa Cruz San Juan	1985 1987	2,264 tonnes
Salta		S-31	Salta	1972	1,248 tonnes

Destroyers

Note: Argentina uses the classification destructores (destroyers) for the Almirante Brown class, despite them being analogous to light frigates by most international classifications.

Class	Picture	No.	Ship	Commissioned	Displacement	Note
Destroyers (4 in service)
Almirante Brown		D-10 D-11 D-12 D-13	Almirante Brown La Argentina Heroína Sarandí	1983 1983 1983 1984	3,600 tonnes	As of 2013 it is reported that these vessels are suffering from engine problems, a lack of spares, lack of training and are unarmed due to their naval ordnance being expired.[1]

Corvettes

Class	Picture	No.	Ship	Commissioned	Displacement	Note
Corvettes (9 in service)
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 2002	1,790 tonnes	Parker (P-44) and Rosales (P-42) are inactive due to a lack of maintenance and a lack of spares. Spiro (P-43) is inactive after sustaining damage during a grounding accident in August 2012.[1]
Drummond		P-31 P-32 P-33	Drummond Guerrico Granville	1978 1978 1980	1,170 tonnes	Rarely put to sea due to lack of spares, maintenance and cost issues.[1]

Amphibious support ships

Class	Picture	No.	Ship	Commissioned	Displacement	Note
Amphibious support ships (2 in service)
Modified Type 42		B-52	Hércules	1976	4,100 tonnes	A modified type 42 destroyer used as a multi-purpose transport ship.
Modified Costa Sur		B-4	Bahía San Blas	1978	10,894 tonnes	Used as an amphibious cargo ship.

Patrol vessels

Class	Picture	No.	Ship	Commissioned	Displacement	Note
Fast attack craft (2 in service)
Intrépida		P-85 P-86	Intrépida Indómita	1974 1974	268 tonnes
Patrol boats (8 in service)
Murature		P-21	King	1946	1,032 tonnes	Used primarily as training vessel, being overhauled.[n 1][2] Sister ship Murature decommissioned September 2014 [3]
Zurubí		P-55	Zurubí	1939	33 tonnes	Decommissioned in 1985, refurbished and re-commissioned in 1993.[n 2][4][5]
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	1999 2000	26.5 tonnes

Auxiliary vessels

Class	Picture	No.	Ship	Commissioned	Displacement	Note
Icebreaker (1 in service)
		Q-5	Almirante Irízar	1978	14,899 tonnes	Out of service since 2007.[n 3]
Survey vessels (3 in service)
		Q-20	Puerto Deseado	1978	2,400 tonnes
			ARA Austral	2015	4,900 tonnes	ex-Sonne, operated by the Navy for the CONICET
		Q-11	Comodoro Rivadavia	1974	827 tonnes
Tanker (1 in service)
Durance		B-1	Patagonia	2000	17,800 tonnes	ex-Durance of the French Navy.[n 4]
Cargo ships (3 in service)
Costa Sur		B-3 B-5	Canal Beagle Cabo de Hornos	1978 1979	10,894 tonnes
		B-13	Ingeniero Julio Krause	1993	8,346 tonnes	A commercial tanker, now serving with the Naval Transport Service as a cargo ship.
Tug boats (4 in service)
Abnaki		A-3 A-6	Francisco de Gurruchaga Suboficial Castillo	1975 1994	1,731 tonnes
		A-2	Teniente Olivieri		1,640 tonnes
Sotoyomo		A-9	Alferez Sobral	1972	800 tonnes
Coastal buoy tenders (3 in service)
Red		Q-61 Q-62 Q-63	Ciudad de Zárate Ciudad de Rosario Punta Alta	2000 2000 2000	525 tonnes
Training ship (1 in service)
		Q-2	Libertad	1963	3,765 tonnes	In drydock for maintenance
Yacht (1 in service)
			Fortuna III	2004	15 tonnes

Notes

1. As of November 2015, ARA King is being overhauled.
2. Transferred in 1944 to the Navy as a patrol boat with pennant number P-36. As of February 2016 is in active service with pennant number P-55 based at Ushuaia.
3. Almirante Irízar has been out of active service due to severe fire damage in 2007. Currently under repair at a cost of over USD$100 million.
4. Patagonia is the primary under-way replenishment ship of the Argentine Navy.

References

Notes

1. Argentine navy short on spares and resources for training and maintenance 2013
2. El jefe de la Armada visitó el patrullero ARA “King” Gaceta Marinera, 25-11-2015 (Spanish)(accessed 2015-12-24)
3. "ARA Murature (Armada Hoy - Histarmar)" (in Spanish). Fundacion Histarmar. Retrieved 2015-12-26.
4. >"Lancha Patrullera Clase "Zurubí" (Armada Argentina - Poder Naval - Flota de Mar - Unidades)" (in Spanish). Argentine Navy. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
5. "P-36 SURUBÍ/ZURUBI (Buques Históricos - Histarmar)" (in Spanish). Fundacion Histarmar. Retrieved 2016-02-20.

Bibliography

• Amendolara Bourdette, Ignacio (2005). Guia de los buques de la Armada Argentina 2005-2006 (in Spanish and English). Buenos Aires, Argentina. ISBN 987-43-9400-5. Retrieved 2014-09-13.

Further reading

• Saunders, Stephen (2015). IHS Jane's Fighting Ships 2015-2016. Janes Fighting Ships (116th Revised ed.). Janes Information Group. ISBN 978-0710631435. Retrieved 2016-01-13.

See also

• Currently active military equipment by country
• List of ships of the Argentine Navy
• List of auxiliary ships of the Argentine Navy

External links

• "Buques de la Armada Argentina 1900-2013" [(List of) Ships of the Argentine Navy 1900-2013]. Historia y Arqueologia Marítima (Histarmar) (in Spanish). Fundación Histarmar - Carlos Mey. Retrieved 2014-09-14.