List of active Argentine Navy ships

This is a list of currently active ships of the Argentine Navy. In total there are 42 commissioned ships in the navy, including 4 destroyers, 2 amphibious support ships and 3 submarines. The total displacement of the fleet is 129,000 tonnes.^{[citation needed]}

Argentine naval ensign.

Submarine fleet

Submarines

See also: Argentine Submarine Force

Note: The submarine fleet is suffering from lack of maintenance and training. The submarines accumulated a total of only 19 hours submerged in 2012 against a minimum requirement of 190 days.

Class	Picture	No.	Boat	Commissioned	Displacement	Note
Submarines (3 in service)
Santa Cruz		S-41 S-42	Santa Cruz San Juan	1985 1987	2,264 tonnes
Salta		S-31	Salta	1972	1,248 tonnes

Surface fleet

Destroyers

Note: Argentina uses the classification destructores (destroyers) for the Almirante Brown class, despite them being analogous to frigates by most international classifications.

Class	Picture	No.	Ship	Commissioned	Displacement	Note
Destroyers (4 in service)
Almirante Brown		D-10 D-11 D-12 D-13	Almirante Brown La Argentina Heroína Sarandí	1983 1983 1983 1984	3,600 tonnes	As of 2013 it is reported that these vessels are suffering from engine problems, a lack of spares, lack of training and are unarmed due to their naval ordnance being expired.

Corvettes

Note: Argentina uses the classification corbetas (corvettes) for the Espora class, despite them being analogous to frigates by most international classifications. Similarly for the Drummond class, which are classified as avisos.

Class	Picture	No.	Ship	Commissioned	Displacement	Note
Corvettes (9 in service)
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 2002	1,790 tonnes	Parker (P-44) and Rosales (P-42) are inactive due to a lack of maintenance and a lack of spares. Spiro (P-43) is inactive after sustaining damage during a grounding accident in August 2012.
Drummond		P-31 P-32 P-33	Drummond Guerrico Granville	1978 1978 1980	1,170 tonnes	Rarely put to sea due to lack of spares, maintenance and cost issues.

Amphibious support ships

Class	Picture	No.	Ship	Commissioned	Displacement	Note
Amphibious support ships (2 in service)
Modified Type 42		B-52	Hércules	1976/2004	4,100 tonnes	A modified type 42 destroyer used as a multi-purpose transport.
Modified Costa Sur		B-4	Bahía San Blas	1978	10,894 tonnes	Used as an amphibious cargo ship.

Patrol vessels

Class	Picture	No.	Ship	Commissioned	Displacement	Note
Fast attack craft (2 in service)
Intrépida		P-85 P-86	Intrépida Indómita	1974 1974	268 tonnes
Patrol boats (6 in service)
Murature		P-20 P-21	Murature King	1945 1946	1,032 tonnes	Used primarily as training vessels.
Baradero		P-61 P-62 P-63 P-64	Baradero Barranqueras Clorinda Concepción del Uruguay	1978 1978 1978 1978	39 tonnes

Auxiliary vessels

Class	Picture	No.	Ship	Commissioned	Displacement	Note
Icebreaker (1 in service)
		Q-5	Almirante Irízar	1978	14,899 tonnes	Out of active service since 2007 due to severe fire damage. Currently under repair at a cost of over USD$100 million.
Survey vessels (2 in service)
		Q-20	Puerto Deseado	1978	2,400 tonnes
		Q-11	Comodoro Rivadavia	1974	827 tonnes
Tanker (1 in service)
Durance		B-1	Patagonia	2000	17,800 tonnes	ex-Durance of the French Navy. Currently the primary under-way replenishment ship of the Argentine Navy.
Cargo ships (3 in service)
Costa Sur		B-3 B-5	Canal Beagle Cabo de Hornos	1978 1979	10,894 tonnes
			Ingeniero Julio Krause	1993	8,346 tonnes	A commercial tanker, now serving with the Naval Transport Service as a cargo ship.
Tug boats (4 in service)
Abnaki		A-3 A-6	Francisco de Gurruchaga Suboficial Castillo	1975 1994	1,731 tonnes
		A-2	Teniente Olivieri		1,640 tonnes
Sotoyomo		A-9	Alferez Sobral	1972	800 tonnes
Coastal buoy tenders (3 in service)
Red		Q-61 Q-62 Q-63	Ciudad de Zárate Ciudad de Rosario Punta Alta	2000 2000 2000	525 tonnes
Training ship (1 in service)
		Q-2	Libertad	1963	3,765 tonnes	Tall ship.
Yacht (1 in service)
			Fortuna III	2004	15 tonnes

See also

• Currently active military equipment by country