Buenos Aires-class destroyer

	ARA Buenos Aires
Class overview
Name	Buenos Aires class
Builders	Vickers Armstrong, John Brown, Cammell Laird, UK
Operators	Argentine Navy
Preceded by	Mendoza class
Succeeded by	Brown class
Built	1936–1938
In commission	1938–73
Completed	7
Lost	1
Retired	6
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	1,375 t (1,353 long tons) standard; 2,042 t (2,010 long tons) full load;
Length	98.45 m (323 ft 0 in)
Beam	10.38 m (34 ft 1 in)
Draught	3.2 m (10 ft 6 in)
Propulsion	2 shaft geared Parsons steam turbines, three boilers, 25,000 kW (34,000 hp)
Speed	35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Range	4,100 nmi (7,600 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement	130
Armament	4 × 4.7 in (120 mm) QF Mark IX guns (4 × 1); 8 × 0.50 in (12.7 mm) machine guns ; 8 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes (2 × 4);

The Buenos Aires-class destroyers were a group of destroyers built for the Argentine Navy in Britain in the 1930s.

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