Buenos Aires-class destroyer

ARA Buenos Aires
Class overview
Name: Buenos Aires class
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, 25,000 kW (34,000 hp)
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:

The Buenos Aires-class destroyers were a group of destroyers built for the Argentine Navy in Britain in the 1930s.

Design

ARA Corrientes sinking after collision with Almirante Brown.

The ships were based on the contemporary G-class destroyers building for the British Royal Navy, with some modifications to suit Argentine 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.

Ships

Ship Builder Launched Commissioned Fate
ARA Buenos Aires (T6 / D6) Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow 21 September 1937 4 April 1938 Scrapped 1971
ARA Corrientes (T8) 21 September 1937 1 July 1938 Sunk in collision with cruiser ARA Almirante Brown, 3 October 1941
ARA Entre Rios (T7 / D7) 21 September 1937 15 May 1938 Scrapped 1973
ARA Misiones (T11 / D11) Cammell Laird, Birkenhead 23 September 1937 5 September 1938 Scrapped 1971
ARA San Juan (T9 / D9) John Brown & Company, Clydebank 24 June 1937 23 March 1938 Scrapped 1973
ARA San Luis (T10 / D10) 23 August 1937 23 March 1938 Scrapped 1971
ARA Santa Cruz (T12 / D12) Cammell Laird 3 November 1937 26 September 1938 Scrapped 1973

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