Name Buenos Aires class Built 1936-1938 Completed 7 | Operators Argentine Navy In commission 1938-73 | |
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Builders Vickers Armstrong, John Brown, Cammel Laird, UK | ||
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 British Royal Navy, with some modifications to suit Argentinian requirements.
After World War II these ships were modified by installing two single hand-worked 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors guns between the funnels replacing the original 76 mm (3 in) anti-aircraft gun 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 was also fitted at this time and Santa Cruz landed "B" gun in favor of a pair of Hedgehog anti-submarine weapons.
References
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