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Yamana 1980

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Diaguita (ex-ATA124)	1965- A5		Levingston SB, Orange, USA	11/1942	29.1.1943	7/1943 // 1947	sold 1979
Yamana (ex-Maricopa)	1965- A6		Gulfport Boiler & Welding Wks, Port Arthur, USA	5/1942	23.10.1942	1/1943 // 2.1948	stricken 1984
Chiriguano (ex-ATA227)	1965- A7	374	Levingston SB, Orange, USA	4/1945	1945	1947	auxiliary 1949
Sanavirón (ex-ATA228)	1965- A8	375	Levingston SB, Orange, USA	1946	1946	8/1947	auxiliary 1949
Alférez Sobral (ex-Salish)	A9	354	Levingston SB, Orange, USA	8/1944	29.9.1944	12/1944 // 2.1972	stricken 8.2018
Comodoro Somellera (ex-Catawba)	A10	255	Gulfport Boiler & Welding Wks, Port Arthur, USA	1/1945	15.2.1945	4/1945 // 10.1975	collision 8.1998, stricken 2000

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	534
Displacement full, t	835
Length, m	41.0 pp 43.6 oa
Breadth, m	10.3
Draught, m	4.01
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 General Electric 12-278A diesel-generators, 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	1500
Max speed, kts	13
Fuel, t	diesel oil 171
Endurance, nm(kts)	16500(8)
Armament	1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10
Electronic equipment	5-8: radar 9, 10: Decca 1226 radar
Complement	49

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Project history

Former USN Sotoyomo class tugs, later used by Armada Argentina as patrols. Sanaviron was also used as survey vessel.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Comodoro Somellera was rammed and sunk by patrol ship Suboficial Castillo at Ushuaia in August 1998, later salved but not repaired.