Alférez Sobral 1980
Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
Diaguita (ex-ATA124) | 1965- A5 | Levingston SB, Orange, USA | 11/1942 | 29.1.1943 | 7/1943 // 1947 | sold 1979 | |
Yamana (ex-Maricopa) | 1965- A6 | Gulfport Boiler & Welding Wks, Port Arthur, USA | 5/1942 | 23.10.1942 | 1/1943 // 2.1948 | stricken 1984 | |
Chiriguano (ex-ATA227) | 1965- A7 | 374 | Levingston SB, Orange, USA | 4/1945 | 1945 | 1947 | auxiliary 1949 |
Sanavirón (ex-ATA228) | 1965- A8 | 375 | Levingston SB, Orange, USA | 1946 | 1946 | 8/1947 | auxiliary 1949 |
Alférez Sobral (ex-Salish) | A9 | 354 | Levingston SB, Orange, USA | 8/1944 | 29.9.1944 | 12/1944 // 2.1972 | stricken 8.2018 |
Comodoro Somellera (ex-Catawba) | A10 | 255 | Gulfport Boiler & Welding Wks, Port Arthur, USA | 1/1945 | 15.2.1945 | 4/1945 // 10.1975 | collision 8.1998, stricken 2000 |
Displacement standard, t |
534 |
Displacement full, t |
835 |
Length, m |
41.0 pp 43.6 oa |
Breadth, m |
10.3 |
Draught, m |
4.01 |
No of shafts |
2 |
Machinery |
2 General Electric 12-278A diesel-generators, 2 electric motors |
Power, h. p. |
1500 |
Max speed, kts |
13 |
Fuel, t |
diesel oil 171 |
Endurance, nm(kts) |
16500(8) |
Armament |
1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10 |
Electronic equipment |
5-8: radar 9, 10: Decca 1226 radar |
Complement |
49 |
Project history: Former USN Sotoyomo class tugs, later used by Armada Argentina as patrols. Sanaviron was also used as survey vessel.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: Comodoro Somellera was rammed and sunk by patrol ship Suboficial Castillo at Ushuaia in August 1998, later salved but not repaired.
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Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.
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