The Buenos Aires class destroyers were a group of destroyers built for the Argentine Navy

Argentine Navy

The Navy of the Argentine Republic or Armada of the Argentine Republic is the navy of Argentina. It is one of the three branches of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic, together with the Army and the Air Force....

 in Britain in the 1930s.

Design

The ships were based on the contemporary G class destroyer

G class destroyer

Two classes of destroyer of the Royal Navy are known as the G class.* The Beagle-class of sixteen ships launched in 1909 and 1910 is also known as the G class.* Nine ships of the G and H class launched in 1935 are known as the G class....

s building for the British Royal Navy, with some modifications to suit Argentinian requirements. The ships had some modernisation in the 1950s being fitted with 40 mm Bofors guns (replacing after bank of torpedo tubes), radar and sonar.

Ships

Ship	Builder	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
(E6)	Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	21 September 1937	4 April 1938	Scrapped 1971
ARA Corrientes (E8)	Vickers, Barrow	21 September 1937	1 July 1938	Sunk in collision with cruiser , 3 October 1941
ARA Entre Rios (E7)	Vickers, Barrow	21 September 1937	15 May 1938	Scrapped 1973
ARA Misiones (E11)	Cammel Laird, Birkenhead	23 September 1937	5 September 1938	Scrapped 1971
ARA San Juan (E9)	John Brown & Company John Brown & Company John Brown and Company of Clydebank was a pre-eminent Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding firm, responsible for building many notable and world-famous ships, such as the , the , the , the , the , and the... , Clydebank	24 June 1937	23 March 1938	Scrapped 1973
ARA San Luis (E10)	John Brown, Clydebank	23 August 1937	23 March 1938	Scrapped 1971
ARA Santa Cruz (E12)	Cammel Laird	3 November 1937	26 September 1938	Scrapped 1973