List of ships of the Argentine Navy



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.

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 to their type, some of them specific to warships are summarized below.


 * Destroyers, Frigates, Corvettes: Naval heroes, or names of significantly historic ships.
 * Submarines: Province names, with priority those starting with S.
 * Mine warfare ships: Province names, not used by Submarines.
 * Amphibious warfare ships: Coastal geographic features.
 * Fast attack ships: Adjectives symbolizing qualities of combat ships.

Aircraft carriers
Colossus-class aircraft carrier (British-built)

Battleships
Almirante Brown ironclad (British-built)

Libertad-class coastal battleships (British-built)

Rivadavia-class battleship dreadnoughts (US-built)

Monitors
El Plata-class monitor (British-built)

Cruisers
Patagonia protected cruiser (Austro-Hungarian-built)

Protected Elswick cruisers (British-built)

 Patria torpedo cruiser (British-built)

Giuseppe Garibaldi-class cruiser armoured cruisers (Italian-built)

Ordered from Italian shipyards. Two ships, Rivadavia and Mariano Moreno, were sold to Japan prior to completion as per naval disarmament agreements with Chile.

Almirante Brown-class heavy cruisers (Italian-built)

La Argentina light cruiser (British-built)

ARA La Argentina was a light cruiser, designed for training naval cadets.

General Belgrano class (US Brooklyn-class cruiser)

Torpedo boats
Maipu-class torpedo ram (British-built)

Bathurst class (British-built; Yarrow 1890 type - Mod GB TB 79 type)

Espora class (British-built)

1st class Thornycroft class (British-built)

2nd class Thornycroft class (British-built)

2nd class Yarrow class (British-built)

Riverine Yarrow class (British-built)

Destroyers
Corrientes-class destroyer  (British-built)

Catamarca-class destroyer  (German-built)

La Plata-class destroyer (German-built)

Eight other destroyers were ordered around this time but never entered service with the Argentine Navy. See Aetos-class destroyer (Greece) and Aventurier-class destroyer (France).

Cervantes-class destroyer (Spanish-built)

Ordered by the Spanish Navy and sold to Argentina prior to completion.

Mendoza-class destroyer (British-built)

Buenos Aires-class destroyer (British-built)

Brown/Almirante Domecq García class (leased US Fletcher-class destroyer)

Seguí class (modified US Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer)

Py class (modified US Gearing-class destroyer)

Hércules class (British Type 42 destroyers)

Almirante Brown-class destroyer (German MEKO 360H2 type)

Frigates and corvettes
Murature-class patrol ship (Locally designed and built)

Hércules class (River-class frigate/Tacoma-class frigate-class World War II frigates)

República class (Flower-class corvette)

Azopardo-class frigate (Locally designed and built)

Drummond-class corvette (French D'Estienne d'Orves-class aviso)

Espora-class corvette (German MEKO 140A16 type, locally built)

Patrol, torpedo and fast attack craft
Zurubí-class patrol boat (Argentine-built)

Intrépida-class fast attack craft (German-built) - known as "fast craft" ( lánchas rápidas)

Baradero-class patrol boat (Israeli-built Dabur-class patrol boat)

Punta Mogotes-class patrol boat (US-built Point-class cutter)

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 gunboat (British-built) - armoured river gunboats

Amphibious warfare
Cabo San Bartolome class (ex-United States Landing Ship, Tank)

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 minesweeper)

Bouchard-class minesweeper (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 submarine)

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)