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 (though both boats were non-operational as of 2022). The total displacement of the fleet (including auxiliaries) was approximately 128,461 tonnes. The draft 2023 budget submitted to Congress envisages 60 days of navigation for technical and tactical naval training. These are 19 fewer days than in 2022. In contrast, in 2012 the naval force was allocated 358 sailing days.^[1]

Argentine naval ensign.

Warships

Submarines

See also: Argentine Submarine Force

Note: As of 2023, the entire submarine fleet is inactive.

Class	Picture	No.	Boat	Commissioned	Displacement	Note
Submarines
Santa Cruz		S-41	Santa Cruz (in reserve)	1984	2,264 tonnes	Reported "inactive", refit cancelled as of 2020[2][3]
Salta		S-31	Salta (in reserve)	1973	1,248 tonnes	Reported inactive as of 2020[4]

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
Almirante Brown		D-10 D-11 D-12 D-13	Almirante Brown La Argentina Sarandí Heroína (in reserve)	1983 1983 1984 1983	3,600 tonnes	Heroína inactive since 2008, reported in 2019 as likely to be scrapped.[5]

Corvettes

Class	Picture	No.	Ship	Commissioned	Displacement	Note
Corvettes
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 2004	1,790 tonnes	Parker being converted to the offshore patrol role as of 2021–23; second vessel also to be converted[6][7]
Drummond		P-31 P-32 P-33	Drummond (in reserve) Guerrico (in reserve) Granville	1976 1978 1980	1,170 tonnes

Patrol vessels

Class	Picture	No.	Ship	Commissioned	Displacement	Note
Offshore patrol vessels
Gowind		P-51 P-52 P-53 P-54	Bouchard Piedrabuena Almirante Storni Bartolomé Cordero	2019 2021 2021 2022 0	1,650 tonnes	Last vessel, P-54, commissioned July 2022.[8][9][10][11][12]
Murature		P-21	King	1946	1,032 tonnes	Used primarily as training vessel.[n 1][13][14] Sister ship Murature decommissioned September 2014[15]
Fast attack craft
Intrépida		P-85 P-86	Intrépida Indómita	1974 1974	268 tonnes
Patrol boats
Zurubí		P-55	Zurubí	1939	33 tonnes	Decommissioned in 1985, refurbished and re-commissioned in 1993.[n 2][16][17]
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	2000	26.5 tonnes

Amphibious support ships

Class	Picture	No.	Ship	Commissioned	Displacement	Note
Amphibious support ships
Modified Type 42		B-52	Hércules (in reserve)	1976	4,100 tonnes	A modified type 42 destroyer used as a multi-purpose transport ship; non-operational as of 2020.[18]
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
Almirante Irízar		Q-5	ARA Almirante Irízar Q-5	1978	14,899 tonnes	Returned to active service in April 2017 following several years of repairs.
Survey vessels
Puerto Deseado		Q-20	Puerto Deseado	1978	2,400 tonnes
Austral		Q-21	Austral	2015	4,900 tonnes	ex-Sonne, operated by the Navy for the CONICET; returned to service 2021 following maintenance.[19]
Comodoro Rivadavia		Q-11	Comodoro Rivadavia	1974	827 tonnes
Tanker
Durance		B-1	Patagonia	2000	17,800 tonnes	ex-Durance of the French Navy.[n 3]
Cargo ships
Costa Sur		B-3	Canal Beagle	1978	10,894 tonnes
Tugs
Abnaki		A-3	Francisco de Gurruchaga	1975	1,731 tonnes
Coastal buoy tenders
Red		Q-61 Q-62 Q-63	Ciudad de Zárate Ciudad de Rosario Punta Alta	2000 2000 2000	525 tonnes
Training ships
Libertad		Q-2	Libertad	1963	3,765 tonnes	In service
Luisito		Q-51	Luisito	1983		Used by the National Fishing School
LICA			Ciudad de Ensenada Ciudad de Berisso	Both boats projected 2023[20]	282 tonnes	First vessel (ARA Ciudad de Ensenada) on sea trials as of August 2023,[21] launched in October 2021;[22] second vessel launched March 2022[23][24]
Yacht
Fortuna			Fortuna III	2004	15 tonnes
Aviso
Teniente Olivieri		A-2	Teniente Olivieri	1987	1,640 tonnes
Neftegaz		A-21 A-22 A-23 A-24	Puerto Argentino Estrecho San Carlos Bahía Agradable Islas Malvinas	2015	2.700 tonnes
Museum Ship
Presidente Sarmiento			ARA Presidente Sarmiento	1897	2750 tonnes	She is now maintained in her original 1898 appearance as a museum ship in Puerto Madero near downtown Buenos Aires.
Uruguay			ARA Uruguay	1874	550 tonnes	Removed from naval service in 1962, the Uruguay was in 1967 declared a National Historic Landmark. currently integrated since 1967 as a museum ship with the frigate ARA Presidente Sarmiento in the Museum of Sea and Navigation.[note 1] It is moored at Puerto Madero in the city of Buenos Aires, in the dock area No. 3, a short distance from the Sarmiento.[26]

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). Vol. 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.