Name Teniente Olivieri Status in active service Beam 12.2 m (40 ft) Launched 1981 | Namesake Lieutenant Olivieri Displacement 1640 tons (full) Draft 4.3 m (14 ft) Length 56 m | |
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The ARA Teniente Olivieri (A-2) is a ship in service with the Argentine Navy classified as aviso.
Homebased at Ushuaia, she is normally assigned to operate in Antarctica during the summer campaigns in the Patrulla Antártica Naval Combinada (English: Joint Antarctic Naval Patrol) with the Chilean Navy to guarantee safety to all tourist and scientific ships that are in transit within the Antarctic Peninsula.
Service
Built in 1981 as Marsea 10 by Quality Shipyard at New Orleans, USA as a support ship and tug for oil rigs.
In November 1987 was acquired by the U.S. Maritime Administration.
It is the first ship to bear the name of Midshipman Olivieri killed on the ARA Alferez Sobral bridge during the Falklands War ( Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas )
References
ARA Teniente Olivieri (A-2) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA