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
ARA La Argentina Cruiser 1939 Speed 2 MG 8 7 6 6 (Koln) AA 6 TT 2 1
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Ordered as a training ship. An enlarged variant of the Arethusa class(Card: HMS Penelope). No wartime modifications are reported.
She was part of the active squadron which enforced argentinian neutrality during the war. The battleships of the argentine navy were mostly inactive during this period.
Note that she was equipped with trainable torpedo mounts the other argentine cruisers lacked, increasing torpedo values of them.
Really not much on this one's service. One webpage suggested argentine plans were to use her a commerce raider in the event of war,without any reference.
Raider or blockade duty makes the most sense to me from above suggestions. Raider would be the most fun of the two.
I think Raider would me a more 'fun' option as well. Just for the fact of thinking about different scenarios, because if someone is running commerce raiders with axis in a match, then this gives a lot more feasibility to an Argentine build in smaller point games and scenarios where something like the Kormoran or Atlantis would be a nuisance.
If we're playing up the raider aspect, this is a better lead the attack unit than the icebreaker. Pulling a smoker up to force muliply for the rest of the fleet.