ARA Buenos Aires |
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders: | Vickers Armstrong, John Brown, Cammel Laird, UK |
| Operators: | Argentine Navy |
| Built: | 1936-1938 |
| In commission: | 1938-73 |
| Completed: | 7 |
| Lost: | 1 |
| Retired: | 6 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,375 t (1,353 long tons) standard 2,042 t (2,010 long tons) full load |
| Length: | 98.45 m (323 ft 0 in) |
| Beam: | 10.38 m (34 ft 1 in) |
| Draught: | 3.2 m (10 ft 6 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft geared steam turbines, three boilers,34,000 hp (25 MW) |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range: | 4,100 nmi (7,600 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Complement: | 130 |
| Armament: | • 4 × 4.7 inch (120 mm) QF Mark IX guns (4×1) • 8 × 0.5 inch machine guns • 8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2×4) |
The Buenos Aires class destroyers were a group of destroyers built for the Argentine Navy in Britain in the 1930s.
The ships were based on the contemporary G class destroyers building for the British Royal Navy, with some modifications to suit Argentinian requirements. The ships had some modernisation in the 1950s being fitted with 40 mm Bofors guns (replacing after bank of torpedo tubes), radar and sonar.
| Ship | Builder | Launched | Commissioned | Fate |
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| ARA Buenos Aires (E6) | Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow | 21 September 1937 | 4 April 1938 | Scrapped 1971 |
| ARA Corrientes (E8) | Vickers, Barrow | 21 September 1937 | 1 July 1938 | Sunk in collision with cruiser ARA Almirante Brown, 3 October 1941 |
| ARA Entre Rios (E7) | Vickers, Barrow | 21 September 1937 | 15 May 1938 | Scrapped 1973 |
| ARA Misiones (E11) | Cammel Laird, Birkenhead | 23 September 1937 | 5 September 1938 | Scrapped 1971 |
| ARA San Juan (E9) | John Brown & Company, Clydebank | 24 June 1937 | 23 March 1938 | Scrapped 1973 |
| ARA San Luis (E10) | John Brown, Clydebank | 23 August 1937 | 23 March 1938 | Scrapped 1971 |
| ARA Santa Cruz (E12) | Cammel Laird | 3 November 1937 | 26 September 1938 | Scrapped 1973 |
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