List of ships of the Argentine Navy



This list includes all major warships and sailing vessels in service with the Argentine Navy since being formally established in the 1860s. It does not include vessels prior to that date, nor it includes auxiliary vessels, transports, colliers or scientific vessels, which are listed on List of auxiliary ships of the Argentine Navy.

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.

There is a separate list of current ships of the Argentine Navy.

Aircraft Carriers
 (British-built)

Dreadnoughts
 (US-built)

Battleships
 (British-built)

Libertad class river battleships (British-built)

Armored Cruisers
Garibaldi class (Italian-built)

Bernardino Rivadavia class (Italian-built)*


 * These ships were sold to Japan prior to completion as per naval disarmament agreements with Chile.

Monitors
Los Andes class (British-built)

Cruisers
Patagonia class (Austria-Hungary-built)

Late-19th Century cruisers (British-built)

Almirante Brown class heavy cruisers (Italian-built)

La Argentina class (British-built)

General Belgrano class (US Brooklyn class cruisers)

(1) sunk in combat action during the Falklands War.

Destroyers
Catamarca class (German-built)

Cervantes class (Spanish-built) - ordered by the Spanish Navy and sold to Argentina prior to completion.

Mendoza class (British-built)

Buenos Aires class (British-built)

(1) sunk after collision with the heavy cruiser ARA Almirante Brown during fleet exercises off Mar del Plata

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

(1) expended in live fire missile test in 1983

Seguí class (modified US Allen M. Sumner class)

Py class (modified US Gearing class)

Hércules class (British Type 42 destroyers)

(1) Transformed into a Fast Assault Transport and given the pennant B-52 in 2002

Almirante Brown class (German MEKO 360H2 type)

Frigates and Corvettes
Murature class (Locally-designed and built)

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

(1) transferred to Prefectura Naval Argentina (Argentine Coast Guard) and renamed PNA Juan Bautista Azopardo (2) transformed into a survey vessel and renamed ARA Comodoro Lasserre

República class (Canadian Flower class)

Azopardo class (Locally designed and built)

Drummond class (French D'Estienne d'Orves class))

(1) these were ships being built for the South African Navy before UN sanctions were applied to South Africa; they were acquired prior to completion, ARA Granville was ordered later.

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

(1) construction of the last two ships was halted due to budgetary issues, then resumed in 1997.

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 names.

Santa Fe (1) class (Italian-built Tarantinos)

Santa Fe (2) class (US-built Balao class

Santa Fe (3) class (US-built Guppy class)

(1) sunk during the Falklands War

Salta Class (German-built Type 209)

(1) Stricken from the fleet list after incomplete overhaul, possible return to service being considered by the Navy.

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.

Gunboats
Paraná class (British-built) - also classified as "corvettes"

(1) Converted to a transport and renamed ARA Piedra Buena. Sunk during a storm.

(2) Currently a museum ship docked at Buenos Aires; nominally in commission in the Argentine Navy and declared a National Historical Monument.

Constitución class (British-built) - classified as "bombarderas"

Bermejo class (British-built) locally classified as "bombarderas"

Rosario class (British-built)

Sailing Frigates
La Argentina class (Austria-Hungary-built) formally classified as a sailing corvette

Presidente Sarmiento class (British-built)

(1) retired from training duties in 1961, currently moored at Buenos Aires as a museum ship and a National Historical Monument

Libertad class (Locally-built)

(1) Active as the Argentine Navy's training vessel.