This list includes all major warships that entered service with the Argentine Navy since being formally established in the 1860s.[n 1] It also includes ships that were purchased by Argentina but did not enter service under Argentine flag.
The list does not include vessels prior to the 1860s; and it also excludes auxiliary ships (tugs, transports, colliers, tankers, scientific vessels, etc.) which are listed separately.
The list is organized by type of ship, by class within each type, and by entry date within each class. Service entry dates indicate the ship's commissioning into the Argentine Navy, and not the ship's entry in service with another navy unless specifically said.
The current norms establish naming conventions for Argentine Navy ships according to their type, some of them specific to warships are summarized below.[1]
Destroyers, Frigates, Corvettes
Naval heroes, or names of significantly historic ships.
Submarines
Province names, with priority those starting with S.
By tradition, Argentine submarines bear the names of provinces whose names begin with the letter "S", thus, the pool of names is limited to only six ("Santa Fe", "Salta", "Santiago del Estero", "San Luis", "San Juan" and "Santa Cruz") resulting in repeated class and ship names.
Six of these ships were planned by the Navy. Only the first two, built in Germany, were actually completed. The other four, to be built in Argentina, were never completed due to budgetary concerns.
^Converted to a survey vessel and renamed ARA Comodoro Lasserre.
^Originally being built for the South African Navy before UN sanctions were applied to South Africa; was acquired prior to completion.
^Originally being built for the South African Navy before UN sanctions were applied to South Africa; was acquired prior to completion.
^Construction was halted due to budgetary issues, then resumed in 1997.
^Construction was halted due to budgetary issues, then resumed in 1997.
^Transferred in 1944 to the Navy as a patrol boat with pennant number P-36. Decommissioned in 1985, refurbished and re-commissioned in 1993. As of February 2016 is in service based at Ushuaia.
^A 40mm gun mount was replaced by MM38 Exocet launcher in 1998.
Burzaco, Ricardo and Ortiz, Patricio. Acorazados y Cruceros de la Armada Argentina, 1881–1992. Buenos Aires: Eugenio B. Ediciones, 1997. ISBN987-96764-0-8. OCLC39297360.
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