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This list includes all major warships that entered service with the Argentine Navy since being formally established in the 1860s. It also includes ships that were purchased by Argentina but did not enter service under Argentine flag. The list does not include vessels prior to the 1860s; and it also excludes auxiliary ships (tugs, transports, colliers, tankers, scientific vessels, etc.) which are listed separately.
Contents
- Naming tradition
- Aircraft carriers
- Dreadnoughts
- Battleships
- Armored cruisers
- Monitors
- Cruisers
- Destroyers
- Frigates and corvettes
- Patrol torpedo and fast attack craft
- Gunboats
- Amphibious warfare
- Mine warfare
- Submarines
- Sailing warships
- References
In addition, there is a separate list of ships currently in service with the Argentine Navy, regardless the type.
The list is organized by type of ship, by class within each type, and by entry date within each class. Service entry dates indicate the ship's commissioning into the Argentine Navy, and not the ship's entry in service with another navy unless specifically said.
Naming tradition
The current norms establish naming conventions for Argentine Navy ships according their type, some of them specific to warships are summarized below.
Aircraft carriers
Colossus class (British-built)
Dreadnoughts
Rivadavia class (US-built)
Battleships
Almirante Brown class (British-built)
Libertad-class river battleships (British-built)
Armored cruisers
Garibaldi class (Italian-built)
Bernardino Rivadavia class (Italian-built)
Monitors
Los Andes class (British-built)
Cruisers
Patagonia class (Austria-Hungary-built)
Late-19th century cruisers (British-built)
Almirante Brown-class heavy cruisers (Italian-built)
La Argentina class (British-built)
General Belgrano class (US Brooklyn-class cruisers)
Destroyers
Catamarca class (German-built)
La Plata class (German-built)
Eight other destroyers were ordered around this time but never entered service with the Argentine Navy. See Wild Beast-class destroyer (Greece) and Aventurier-class destroyer (France).
Cervantes class (Spanish-built) - ordered by the Spanish Navy and sold to Argentina prior to completion.
Mendoza class (British-built)
Buenos Aires class (British-built)
Brown/Almirante Domecq García class (leased US Fletcher class)
Seguí class (modified US Allen M. Sumner class)
Py class (modified US Gearing class)
Hércules class (British Type 42 destroyers)
Almirante Brown class (German MEKO 360H2 type)
Frigates and corvettes
Murature class (Locally-designed and built)
Hércules class (River/Tacoma-class World War II frigates)
República class (Flower class)
Azopardo class (Locally designed and built)
Drummond class (French D'Estienne d'Orves class)
Espora class (German MEKO 140A16 type, locally built)
Patrol, torpedo and fast attack craft
Zurubí class (Argentine-built)
Intrépida class (German-built) - known as "fast craft" ((Spanish) lánchas rápidas)
Baradero class (Israeli-built Dabur class)
Punta Mogotes class (US-built Point class)
Gunboats
Paraná class (British-built) - also classified as "corvettes"
Constitución class (British-built) - locally classified as "bombarderas", they were of the Rendel gunboat type.
Bermejo class (British-built) - locally classified as "bombarderas", they were of the Rendel gunboat type.
Rosario class (British-built) - armoured river gunboats
Amphibious warfare
Cabo San Antonio class (Locally-built De Soto County)
Cándido de Lasala class (ex-United States)
Mine warfare
Bathurst class (German-built M1915 and M1916 classes)
Neuquén class (British-built Ton class)
Bouchard class (Argentine-built minesweepers / minelayers)
Submarines
By tradition, Argentine submarines bear the names of provinces whose names begin with the letter "S", thus, the pool of names is limited to only six ("Santa Fe", "Salta", "Santiago del Estero", "San Luis", "San Juan" and "Santa Cruz") resulting in repeated class and ship names.
Santa Fe (1) class (Italian-built Tarantinos)
Santa Fe (2) class (US-built Balao class)
Santa Fe (3) class (US-built Guppy class)
Salta Class (German-built Type 209)
Santa Cruz class (German-built TR-1700 type)
Six of these ships were planned by the Navy. Only the first two, built in Germany, were actually completed. The other four, to be built in Argentina, were never completed due to budgetary concerns.
Sailing warships
La Argentina class (Austria-Hungary-built) formally classified as a sailing corvette
Presidente Sarmiento class (British-built)