#68 La Argentina - READY FOR CARD

ARA La Argentina 10 Points
Cruiser 1939
Speed 2
MG 8 7 6 6 (Koln)
AA 6
TT 2 1

A3 V8 H3

LEAD THE ATTACK 1: After both fleets are deployed, this unit can make a speed-1 move before the first turn begins.

RAIDER: This unit rolls one extra attack die when making Gunnery attacks against Destroyers and Auxiliary units.

ARA La Argentina
Laid Down: 11 Jan 1936
Commissioned: 12 April 1939
Decommissioned: 1972?
Light cruiser
Displacement
6,500 tons (standard)
7,500 tons (full load)
Length
165 m (541 ft 4 in)
Beam
17.22 m (56 ft 6 in)
Draught
5.03 m (16 ft 6 in)
Propulsion
4 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 4 Yarrow type boilers, 54,000 hp (40,000 kW)
Speed
30 knots (56 km/h)
Range
12,000 nautical miles (22,000 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement
800 (including 60 cadets)
Armament
9 × 6 inch guns (3 × 3)
4 × 4 inch guns (4 × 1)
8 × 2-pounder "pom pom" (8 × 1)
6 × 21 inch torpedo tubes (2 × 3)
Armour
3 inch belt
2 inch deck
2 inch turrets
3 inch conning tower
Aircraft carried
1 × Supermarine Walrus
Aviation facilities
Catapult launcher

La Argentina was an export version of the British Arethusa-class trade protection cruisers enlarged to be used as a training ship for naval cadets. While her British counterparts were ultimately used as fleet escorts, La Argentina performed the class's designed function of neutrality patrols and escorted merchant vessels throughout the war. With the longest range and the most modern accommodations of any Argentinean ship of the time she operated independently from the other cruisers and battleships of the Armada de la República Argentina and showed the flag around the world.