| ARA Drummond (P-31) | |
|---|---|
 ARA Drummond | |
| Career (South Africa) |  |
| Class and type: | D'Estienne d'Orves class Aviso |
| Namesake: | Cape of Good Hope |
| Ordered: | February 1976[1] |
| Builder: | Lorient, France |
| Laid down: | 12 March 1976 |
| Launched: | 5 March 1977 |
| Christened: | SAS Good Hope |
| Out of service: | 17 November 1977 |
| Fate: | Delivery blocked by UNSCR 418 during sea trials in France |
| Career (Argentina) |  |
| Namesake: | Francisco Drummond |
| Operator: |
 Argentine Navy |
| Ordered: | 1978 |
| Commissioned: | 9 November 1978 |
| In service: | 9 November 1978 |
| Renamed: | ARA Drummond |
| Homeport: | Mar del Plata |
| Fate: | active service as of 2010 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Type A69 Drummond class corvette |
| Displacement: | 1,170 tons (1,320 tons full load)[2] |
| Length: | 80 m (260 ft)[2] |
| Beam: | 10.3 m (34 ft)[2] |
| Draught: | 3.55 m (11.6 ft)[2] |
| Installed power: | 12,000 shp (8.9 MW)[2] |
| Propulsion: | 2× SEMT Pielstick 12 PC 2.2 V400 diesels, 2× CP propellers[2] |
| Speed: | 23.3 knots (43 km/h)[2] |
| Range: | 4,500 nautical miles (8,330 km) at 16 knots (30 km/h)[2] |
| Endurance: | 15 days[2] |
| Complement: | 5 officers, 79 enlisted, 95 berths[2] |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Thales DRBV 51A air/surface search Thales DRBC-32E fire control Consilium Selesmar NavBat Thales Diodon hull MF sonar[2] |
| Electronic warfare & decoys: |
Thales DR 2000 S3 Thales Alligator 51 jammer 2× 18 Corvus decoys[2] |
| Armament: |
4× MM38 Exocet anti-ship missiles 1× 100 mm/55 Mod.1968 dual purpose gun 1× twin Bofors 40 mm L/70 AA guns 2× 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns 2× .50cal Colt M2 machine guns 2× triple 324 mm ILAS-3 tubes (WASS A-244S torpedoes)[2] |
| Aircraft carried: | none |
| Aviation facilities: | small pad for VERTREP |
ARA Drummond (P-31) is the lead ship of the Drummond class of three corvettes of the Argentine Navy. She is the second vessel to be named after Navy Sgt Francisco Drummond.
She is currently based at Mar del Plata and conducts fishery patrol duties in the Argentine Exclusive Economic Zone, where she has captured several trawlers in recent years.[3] According to reports in November 2012 the Drummond class "hardly sail because of lack of resources for operational expenses".[4]
Service history[]
Drummond was built in 1977 in France for the South African Navy to be named SAS Good Hope but was embargoed at the last minute by United Nations Security Council Resolution 418 over apartheid. It was sold to Argentina instead and delivered on 9 November 1978.
She carried the pennant number P-1 until the introduction of the Espora class corvettes in 1985 when she became P-31.
In 1982 she served with her sister ships in the Falklands War (Spanish language: Guerra de Malvinas ).
On 7 October 1983, during a live fire exercise, sunk the old destroyer Almirante Domecq Garcia with a MM38 Exocet missile.[5]
On 1994, from her temporary base at Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, she participated on the blockade of Haiti during Operation Uphold Democracy.[6]
She had also served as support ship of the Buenos Aires-Rio de Janeiro tall ships races.
HMS York incident[]
On 25 February 2010 the British tabloid The Sun reported that the Drummond had been intercepted and shepherded away by the Royal Navy destroyer HMS York in the vicinity of the Falklands Islands. The story was published in the middle of a diplomatic dispute between the United Kingdom and Argentina about oil drilling, escalating the crisis as the "first head-to-head of the Falklands row".[7] The British Ministry of Defence quickly issued a denial. A spokesman said the incident had occurred a month earlier, before the oil dispute began; both ships were in the same zone in international waters during rough weather at night, and, after a friendly dialogue by radio, each had continued on its own exercise.[8][9][10][11]
References[]
Portions based on a translation from Spanish Wikipedia.
- ↑ "Victor Moukambi dissertation.doc". University of Stellenbosch. 2008-10-13. http://etd.sun.ac.za/jspui/bitstream/10019/1524/2/Moukambi,%20V.pdf. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 Wertheim, Eric (2007). The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World: Their Ships, Aircraft, and Systems (15 ed.). Naval Institute Press. p. 9. ISBN 9781591149552. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TJunjRvplU4C&pg=PA9.
- ↑ Incendian y hunden un pesquero para evitar su captura
- ↑ "Argentine navy short on spares and resources for training and maintenance". MercoPress. 22 November 2012. http://en.mercopress.com/2012/11/22/argentine-navy-short-on-spares-and-resources-for-training-and-maintenance.
- ↑ Comprehensive Argentine Navy list
- ↑ con el propósito de asegurar el cumplimiento del embargo comercial, dispuesto por el Consejo de Seguridad, por medio de las corbetas ARA Grandville, ARA Guerrico y ARA Drummond.
- ↑ Navy sends Argie warships packing
- ↑ Londres desmiente información sobre la interceptación de un barco argentino
- ↑ UK MoD: Radio communication in the Falklands
- ↑ Reino Unido nega ter interceptado navio argentino nas Malvinas
- ↑ Falklands: UK MOD denies naval incident with Argentine vessel
Further reading[]
- Guia de los buques de la Armada Argentina 2005-2006. Ignacio Amendolara Bourdette, ISBN 987-43-9400-5, Editor n/a. (Spanish/English text)
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