List of ships of the Argentine Navy

List of ships of the Argentine Navy

This list includes all major warships and sailing vessels in service with the Argentine Navy since being formally established in the 1860s. It does not include vessels prior to that date, nor it includes auxiliary vessels, transports, colliers or scientific vessels.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.

Aircraft Carriers

Colossus class (British-built)

Libertad class river battleships (British-built)

* These ships were sold to Japan prior to completion as per naval disarmament agreements with Chile.

Monitors

Los Andes class (British-built)

Almirante Brown class heavy cruisers (Italian-built)

(1) sunk in combat action during the Falklands War.

Destroyers

Catamarca class (German-built)

Buenos Aires class (British-built)

Py class (modified US Gearing class)

Frigates and Corvettes

Murature class (Locally-designed and built)

Azopardo class (Locally designed and built)

(1) construction of the last two ships was halted due to budgetary issues, then resumed in 1997.

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 names.

Santa Fe (1) class (Italian-built "Tarantinos")

(1) sunk during the Falklands War

Salta Class (German-built Type 209)

(1) Converted to a transport and renamed ARA "Piedra Buena". Sunk during a storm.

(2) Currently a museum ship docked at Buenos Aires; nominally in commission in the Argentine Navy and declared a National Historical Monument.

Constitución class (British-built) - classified as "bombarderas"

Sailing Frigates

La Argentina class (Austria-Hungary-built) formally classified as a sailing corvette

(1) Active as the Argentine Navy's training vessel.


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