List of warships of the South American navies

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The order and commissioning of battleships, cruisers and aircraft carriers for the navy of various Latin American states was repeatedly shaped by status thinking and arms races.

Latin American ships have repeatedly been among the oldest of their kind. A current example is the Peruvian flagship Almirante Grau , which was launched in 1941. Some ships were never completed.

• Ironclad ships :
• Battleships : Argentina, Brazil (2 each, more ordered), Chile (1, another sold)
• Reconnaissance cruiser :
• Light cruisers :
• Helicopter cruiser : Peru ( Aguirre (CH-84))
• Aircraft carrier : Argentina, Brazil

Historical background

After Argentina and Chile had settled a naval race that had arisen as a result of border disputes by a treaty in May 1902, both states canceled purchase orders for larger warships abroad.

As a result, Brazil developed an ambitious fleet armament plan, which, comparable to the arms race in Europe, received a new dynamic. Brazil ordered two dreadnought-type battleships , Minas Geraes and Sao Paulo , in Great Britain , to which Argentina responded with the construction of two much larger dreadnoughts in the USA. When Brazil also ordered two battleships of this size, the purchase of another ship in Argentina was also planned.

However, none of these ships were built because Brazil was overwhelmed with funding the project. In any case, the Brazilian armaments for the “Golden Fleet” (Armada da Oro) had placed an extremely heavy burden on the state budget. The Superdreadnought Rio de Janeiro , which was already under construction in Great Britain , was sold to the Ottoman Empire, the ship was confiscated by Great Britain when the First World War broke out and put into service as HMS Agincourt . The order for the Riachuelo was canceled before it was launched.

Before the First World War, Chile did not receive any of the two Superdreadnoughts ordered. Both were bought by the Royal Navy when the war broke out . The Almirante Latorre took part as HMS Canada in the Skagerrak Battle . The sister ship Almirante Cochrane was converted into an aircraft carrier after 1918, HMS Eagle , in service since 1924, was sunk on August 11, 1942 by the German submarine U 73 . Almirante Latorre was sold back and served in the Chilean Navy from 1920 to 1958.

List of battleships, cruisers and aircraft carriers of the Latin American navies

This list contains all battleships, cruisers and aircraft carriers that were in service in the navy of various Latin American countries from 1900 to the present day. Some ships were never completed. A destroyer and a frigate are also listed, which have an operational displacement of over 5,000 tons and thus reach the size of the ironclad around 1900.

Status of the ship
Off-duty
In active service
Loss due to war or accident
Construction canceled or sold

The table is sortable.

Surname	country	Type	Piss (in  t )	Stack run	in service	off-duty	origin	Armament remarks	photo
Riachuelo		Pz	5,029	1883	1883	1910	Samuda	4 × 240 mm
Aquidabã		Pz	5,029	1885	1885	1906	Samuda	4 × 230 mm explosion, sunk, 212 dead
Tamandaré		Cp	4,537	1890	1893	1915		10 × 150 mm
Rivadavia		Cp	7,750	1902			Ansaldo	1 x 254 mm, 2 × 203 mm at sold: Kasuga , sunk 1945th
Mariano Moreno		Cp	7,822	1903			Ansaldo	4 x 203 mm to sold: Nisshin 1936 target ship .
Constitución		B.	11,800	1903			Armstrong-Whitworth	4 × 254 mm Sold To : HMS Swiftsure
Libertad		B.	11,800	1903			Vickers	4 x 254 mm to sold: HMS Triumph , 1915 by U 21 sunk.
Rivadavia		BB	30,100	1911	1915	1952	Fore River	12 × 305 mm
Moreno		BB	30,100	1911	1915	1952	Camden	12 × 305 mm Broken up after 96 days of towing in Japan.
NN		BB	30,100	1916				12 × 305 mm Order not awarded
São Paulo		BB	19,508	1909	1910	1946	Vickers	12 × 305 mm Lost during towing in 1951, 9 dead.
Minas Geraes		BB	19,508	1908	1909	1946	Vickers	12 × 305 mm 1908
Rio de Janeiro		BB	27,500	1913			Armstrong Whitworth	Mm 14 × 305 to sold; confiscated: HMS Agincourt
Riachuelo		BB	27,500	1915			Armstrong Whitworth	14 × 305 mm ordered in 1914, canceled in 1915
Almirante Latorre		BB	28,000	1913	1920	1958	Armstrong-Whitworth	10 × 356 mm to : HMS Canada ; Battle of the Skagerrak
Almirante Cochrane		BB	28,000	1913			Armstrong-Whitworth	10 × 356 mm purchased in 1918 from the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle
C11 Bahia		CS	3,050	1909	1910	1945	Armstrong Whitworth	10 × 120 mm exploded during exercise, about 340 dead
C12 Rio Grande do Sul		CS	3,050	1909	1910	1948	Armstrong Whitworth	10 × 120 mm 27 kn
Ceara		CS	3,050	1911			Armstrong Whitworth	10 × 120 mm canceled
Veinticinco de Mayo (C-2)		CA	9,000	1929	1931	1961	OTO Livorno	6 × 190 mm
Almirante Brown (C-1)		CA	9,000	1929	1931	1961	OTO Genoa	6 × 190 mm
La Argentina C-3		CL	7,500	1937	1939	1973	Vickers	9 × 152 mm
General Belgrano		CL	9,575	1938	1951	1982	USS Phoenix (CL-46)	15 × 152 mm sunk, 323 dead
Nueve de Julio		CL	12.207	1936	1951	1978	USS Boise (CL-47)	15 × 152 mm
Almirante Barroso		CL	12.207	1936	1951	1974	USS Philadelphia (CL-41)	15 × 152 mm
Almirante Tamandaré		CL	13,327	1938	1951	1974	USS St. Louis (CL-49)	15 × 152 mm dropped in 1980
O'Higgins		CL	12.207	1936	1951	1974	USS Philadelphia (CL-41)	15 × 152 mm
Capitán Prat (CL-03)		CL	12.207	1936	1951	1985	USS Nashville (CL-43)	15 × 152 mm Chacabuco (1982–1985)
Almirante gray (CL-81)		CL	11,024	1941	1959	1979	HMS Newfoundland (C59)	9 × 152 mm 1973: Capitán Quiñones
Coronel Bolognesi (CL-82)		CL	11,024	1942	1960	1982	HMS Ceylon (C30)	9 × 152 mm scrapped in 1985
Almirante Latorre		CL	9,200	1945	1971	1984	Göta Lejon	7 × 152 mm largest ship in the Swedish Navy
Almirante Latorre		D.	6,300	1964	1986	1998	HMS Glamorgan (D19)	2 × 114 mm 4 MM38 Exocet used as HMS Glamorgan in the Falklands War
Aguirre (CH-84)		CH	11,930	1941	1978	1999	De Zeven Provinciën (C802)	4 × 152 mm at times Almirante gray ; scrapped
Almirante Williams		FF -19	5,496	1986	2003	iD	HMS Sheffield	1 × 76 mm 4 × Harpoon Barak 1
Independencia		CVL	18,400	1944	1959	1969	HMCS Warrior (R31)	Canceled in 1971
Veinticinco de Mayo		CVL	19,900	1943	1969	1990	Karel Doorman ex HMS Venerable (R63)
Minas Gerais		CVL	19,890	1944	1960	2001	HMS Vengeance (R71)	Flagship until 2001
Almirante gray		CL	11,930	1941	1973	in motion	De Ruyter (C801)	8 × 152 mm flagship; largest warship built in the Netherlands
São Paulo		CV	33,673	1960	2001	in motion	Foch (R99)	Flagship since 2001

literature

• Robert L. Scheina: Latin America. A Naval History 1810-1987 Naval Institute Press, Annapolis MD 1987, ISBN 0-87021-295-8 .
• David Topliss: The Brazilian Dreadnoughts, 1904-1914. In: Warship International 25, No. 3 (1988). S 240-289. OCLC 1647131 .
• Bruno Weyer : Paperback of the war fleets . XIX. Born 1918, Munich 1918, reprint Koblenz 1968.
• Gerhard Albrecht : Weyers Flottentaschenbuch 1968. XLIX. Born in Munich 1968.
• Werner Globke : Weyers Flottentaschenbuch 1999-2001. 64th year, Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 2000. ISBN 3-7637-4515-7 .

Web links

Commons : Warships of the Argentine Navy  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Warships of the Brazilian Navy  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Warships of the Chilean Navy  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Warships of the Peruvian Navy  - Collection of images, videos and audio files