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Cabo Corrientes 2008

Ships

Names	Builders	Commissioned	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
GC64 Mar del Plata GC65 Martin García GC66 Río Luján GC67 Río Uruguay GC68 Río Paraguay GC69 Río Paraná GC70 Río de la Plata GC71 La Plata GC72 Buenos Aires GC73 Cabo Corrientes GC74 Quequén GC75 Bahía Blanca GC76 Ingeniero White GC77 Golfo San Matías GC78 Madryn GC79 Río Deseado GC80 Ushuaia GC81 Canal Beagle GC82 Islas Malvinas GC83 Rio Iguazú	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Germany: GC64-83	1979: GC64-72 1980: GC73-83	GC82 (5/1982 British Tiger Bay) GC83 (2.5.1982)	None	in service (2019): GC64-81

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement full, t	81
Length, m	26.0 pp 27.7 oa
Breadth, m	5.30
Draught, m	1.65
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 MTU 8V331 TC92 diesels
Power, h. p.	2100
Max speed, kts	22
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	1200(12)
Armament	1 x 1 - 20/90 GAM-B01, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90
Electronic equipment	Decca 1226 radar
Complement	15

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Project history

Patrol boats. Fin stabilizers fitted.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

During the Falklands/Malvinas War Rio Iguazú was lost 2.5.1982 and Islas Malvinas was captured in May 1982 by British forces and named Tiger Bay.