CABO SAN ANTONIO ARA

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CABO SAN ANTONIO ARA

Post by shipstamps » Sun Oct 19, 2008 4:45 pm


Built as a Landing Ship (Tank) by Astillero AFNE, Rio Santiago for the Argentinean Navy.
1968 Launched under the name ARA CABO SAN ANTONIO. (Q42)
Displacement 3.828 tons standard, 7.804 tons full load. Dim. 445 x 62 x 16.8ft.
Powered by six diesel engines, geared to two shafts, 13.700 bhp, speed 16 knots.
Armament 6 – 3 inch guns.
Complement 124.
1973 Completed.
1974 Commissioned.

She was based on the US Navy’s Suffolk County class LST 1171 tank landing ship.
1982 When the Falkland Conflict broke out with the landing of Argentinean forces, she was one of the ships in Transport Group and left Port Belgrano on 28 March 1982, with on board 20 LVTP7 tracked amphibious Vehicles Battalion, carrying D and E Companies of the 2nd Marine Infantry Battalion to Yorke Bay, where on the 1 April the men and vehicles were landed.
2 April she entered with other ships of the Task Group Port Williams north of Port Stanley.
She did not participate further in this war, after the British Royal navy Fleet arrived in the waters of the Falklands.

According the book Fight for the Malvinas by Martin Middlebrook was she lucky to escape undamaged from the Falklands, he wrote:
She was actually in the periscope sight of the British submarine HMS SPARTAN on four consecutive days while she was anchored in the approaches to Stanley harbour, but was not attacked, as despite the imposition of the MEZ the submarines had not yet received her attack orders as London was still trying the diplomatic approach, and therefore the CABO SAN ANTONIO was able to return safely to the mainland (Argentine).

1997 Decommissioned.

2008 Now used for the transport of cattle to the market in the Province Corrientes, Argentine.

On Argentine 1996 $0.25 sg 2493, scott 1941.

Sources: Some web-sites. Argentine Ships in the Falkland Islands by Salvador Alaimo (El Sextante)
http://www.taringa.net/posts/info/91023 ... tonio.html.

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