Argentine Navy — Destroyer class
Buenos Aires-class destroyer
Buenos Aires class
The class in numbers
- 7 Completed
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- Argentine Navy
- Built
- 1936–1938
- In commission
- 1938–73
- Preceded by
- Mendoza-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Brown-class destroyer
- Builders
- Vickers Armstrong, John Brown, Cammell Laird, UK
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,353 long tons (1,375 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,010 long tons (2,042 t)
- Length
- 98.45 m (323 ft)
- Speed
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Complement
- 130
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
- Armament
- 4 × 120 mm QF Mark IX guns (4 × 1)
- 8 × 12.7 mm machine guns
- 8 × 21 in torpedo tubes (2 × 4)
Roster
Holding 1 of the 7 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARA Buenos Aires (D-6) | D-6 | 1937 | Scrapped 1971 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Buenos Aires-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.