"Cabo San Antonio" ( Spanish: Cabo San Antonio , "Cape of St. Anthony ") - landing ship, which was in service with the Navy of Argentina.
| Cabo San Antonio | |
|---|---|
| ARA Cabo San Antonio (Q-42) | |
| Service | |
 Argentina | |
| Class and type of vessel | landing ship |
| Organization | Argentine Navy |
| Manufacturer | AFNE [1] |
| Launched | 1968 [2] |
| Commissioned | November 2, 1978 [2] |
| Withdrawn from the fleet | 1997 |
| Status | withdrawn from service |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 4300 t (empty) [2] 4164 t (normal) [1] 8000 t (full) [2] 7100 t (full) [1] |
| Length | 135.6 m [1] |
| Width | 18.9 m [1] |
| Draft | 5.3 m [1] |
| Engines | 6 diesel engines [1] 2 diesel engines [2] |
| Power | 13,700 h.p. [one] |
| Mover | 2 screws |
| Speed | 16 knots [1] |
| Sailing range | 13,000 miles |
| Crew | 124 people [1] |
| Armament | |
| Radar weapons | Radar Plessey AWS-1 [1] |
| Flak | 3 × 4 - 40 mm / 60 [1] |
| Aviation group | 1 helicopter [2] |
Content
History of construction and service
Built in Argentina, at the AFNE shipyard, based on the drawings of the US Navy 's De Soto County tank assault ships. Launched in 1968, put into operation on November 2, 1978.
He participated in the Falkland War . During the operation, Rosario landed 20 LVTP-7 , armored personnel carriers and amphibians LARC-V , as well as companies D and E of the 2nd Marine Corps Battalion in York Bay . With the arrival of British ships in the war zone did not go to sea. Landing capacity - 700 paratroopers, 23 medium tanks , 8 amphibious LCVP transporters.
In 1997, decommissioned and scrapped. After its cancellation, options for acquiring Newport - type landing ships or San Marco-type landing helicopter-docking ships in Italy (which would drastically increase the possibility of transferring and landing marine corps) were considered, however, in the absence necessary funds, none of these transactions to date have not taken place [3] . The planned purchase in 2006-2007 of France, the landing helicopter dock ships of the type "Hurricane" also failed. The fact is that “Hurricanes” were built in the 1950s , when no one cared about the environmental features of materials, ships were built using asbestos , lead , and mercury .
See also
- ARA Cabo San Bartolomé (Q-41)
- ARA Cándido de Lasala (Q-43)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1947-1995. - Annapolis, Maryland, USA: Naval Institute Press, 1996. - P. 11. - ISBN 978-155-75013-25 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Solomonov P.V., Solomonov B.V., Volkov A.E. Ships of the Falkland War: fleets of Great Britain and Argentina. - Moscow: Maritime Collection, 2007. - No. 2 . - S. 29 .
- ↑ TARGET & ZVO . Date of treatment February 21, 2013. Archived March 13, 2013.
Literature
- Amphibious Warfare Vessels of the Argentine Navy: Lst-542 Class Tank Landing Ships of the Argentine Navy, USS Gunston Hall, USS Lst-801. - Moscow: General Books, 2010. - ISBN 1-15818-497-2 .
- Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1947-1995. - Annapolis, Maryland, USA: Naval Institute Press, 1996. - ISBN 978-155-75013-25 .