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 2017, there were 41 commissioned ships in the navy, including 4 destroyers, 2 amphibious support ships and 2 submarines. The total displacement of the fleet (including auxiliaries) was approximately 128,461 tonnes.

Argentine naval ensign.

Warships

Submarines

See also: Argentine Submarine Force

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 (2 in service)
Santa Cruz		S-41	Santa Cruz	1984	2,264 tonnes	The San Juan, sister ship to the Santa Cruz, was declared lost with all hands on 23 November 2017, having been missing since the 15th.[2]
Salta		S-31	Salta	1973	1,248 tonnes

Destroyers

Note: Argentina uses the classification destructores (destroyers) for the Almirante Brown class, despite them being analogous to medium 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]

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][3] Sister ship Murature decommissioned September 2014 [4]
Zurubí		P-55	Zurubí	1939	33 tonnes	Decommissioned in 1985, refurbished and re-commissioned in 1993.[n 2][5][6]
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

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.

Auxiliary vessels

Class	Picture	No.	Ship	Commissioned	Displacement	Note
Icebreaker (1 in service)
		Q-5	Almirante Irízar	1978	14,899 tonnes	Returned to active service in April 2017 following several years of repairs.
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 3]
Cargo ships (2 in service)
Costa Sur		B-3 B-5	Canal Beagle Cabo de Hornos	1978 1979	10,894 tonnes
Tugs (8 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
Neftegaz		A-21 A-22 A-23 A-24	Puerto Argentino Estrecho San Carlos Bahía Agradable Islas Malvinas	2015		Purchased from Russia; ex- Neftegaz-61, Neftegaz-51, Neftegaz-71, and Neftegaz-57.[7][8]
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 (2 in service)
		Q-2	Libertad	1963	3,765 tonnes	In drydock for maintenance
		Q-51	Luisito	1983		Used by the National Fishing School
Yacht (1 in service)
			Fortuna III	2004	15 tonnes

See also

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

Notes

References

Further reading

• Saunders, Stephen (2015). IHS Jane's Fighting Ships 2015-2016. Janes Fighting Ships (116th Revised ed.). Janes Information Group. ISBN 978-0-7106-3143-5.
• Garcia Pedroche, Sergio; Nuñez Padin, Jorge Felix (2004). Nuñez Padin, Jorge Felix, ed. ARA B1 "Patagonia". Fuerzas Navales (in Spanish). Nº1. Bahia Blanca, Argentina: Fuerzas Aeronavales.

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.