ARA Patria

ARA Patria was a torpedo cruiser which served in the Argentine Navy between 1894 and 1927. It was a modified Dryad-class torpedo gunboat which were in service with the Royal Navy during the same period.

ARA Patria underway
History
Argentina
Name	Patria
Builder	Samuda Brothers, Poplar (London), United Kingdom
Launched	28 December 1893
Completed	1894
Decommissioned	1927
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Displacement	1,070 tons
Length	262 ft 6 in (80.0 m)
Beam	30 ft 6 in (9.3 m)
Draught	13 ft (4.0 m)
Installed power	3,300 ihp (2,500 kW)
Propulsion	2 × 3-cylinder vertical triple-expansion steam engines Locomotive boilers Twin screws
Speed	20 kn (37 km/h)
Complement	159
Armament	2 × 120 mm (4.7 in) Armstrong guns 4 × 65 mm (2.6 in) Armstrong guns 2 × 47 mm (1.9 in) Nordenfelt guns 2 × Nordenfelt machine guns 5 × 18 in torpedo tubes

History

The Patria was ordered from the British shipbuilder Laird Brothers and built at their Birkenhead shipyard, at a price of £87,000 to replace the torpedo boat ARA Rosales , which had sunk at Cabo Polonio in 1892. The funds were raised by public subscription, headed by the newspapers La Nación and La Prensa.

Patria was of similar design to the contemporary Dryad-class torpedo gunboats building for the British Royal Navy, but had a flush deck to improve seakeeping. The ship was launched in 1893 and completed in 1894. In November of that year the vessel departed from England, arriving in Argentina the following month. It participated in the naval exercises held in 1895.

In January and February 1902 it participated in the naval exercises as part of the 2nd Sea Division, led by Counter admiral Manuel José García-Mansilla.

Toward the end of its career it served as a survey vessel, finally being decommissioned in 1927 by General Order No. 207 of the Navy Ministry.

See also

• List of cruisers
• List of ships of the Argentine Navy

References

Bibliography

• Bóveda, Jorge Rafael (2009). "Las maniobras Navales de 1902. La evolución de las tácticas de la Armada Argentina ante el conflicto con Chile, 1881-1902". Boletín del Centro naval (in Spanish) (Nº 824).
• Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.
• "The Argentine Cruiser Patria". The Engineer. Vol. 78. 14 September 1894. p. 231. Retrieved 10 June 2021.

Further reading

• Arguindeguy, Pablo (1972). Apuntes sobre los buques de la Armada Argentina (1810-1970) (in Spanish). Buenos aires: Comando en Jefe de la Armada.

External links

• "ARA Patria". www.histarmar.com.ar. Retrieved 9 November 2015.