ARA Azopardo is a

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era

Argentine Navy The Argentine Navy (ARA; ). This forms the basis for the navy's ship prefix "ARA". is the navy of Argentina. It is one of the three branches of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic, together with the Argentine Army, Army and the Argentine ...

warship, originally classified as patrol boat and later as antisubmarine frigate. The vessel is named after Juan Bautista Azopardo, an Argentine naval officer that served in both the

Argentine War of Independence The Argentine War of Independence () was a secessionist civil war (until 1816) fought from 1810 to 1818 by Argentine patriotic forces under Manuel Belgrano, Juan José Castelli, Martín Miguel de Güemes, Martin Miguel de Guemes and José de ...

and in the

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. It is the third Argentine naval ship with this name.

Design

''Azopardo'' was as part of a program to build four mine warfare ships during the

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, of which two (''Murature'' and ''King'') were completed as patrol boats and the others (''Piedrabuena'' and ''Azopardo'') as antisubmarine frigates.

History

''Azopardo'' was ordered in 1940, however significant delays caused its keel to be laid only in 1950; it was launched in 1953 and completed two years later. ''Azopardo'' did not take part of the rising against

Juan Domingo Perón ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of '' John''. The name is of Hebrew origin and has the meaning "God has been gracious." It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking countries around the world and in the Philip ...

's government known as

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, as she was still being completed at Río Santiago. Between 1956 and 1967 it belonged to the Destroyers and Frigates Squadron of the Seas Fleet based in Puerto Belgrano Naval Base, and participated in various exercises. Due to the ''Cruz del Sur'' incident, in 1967 she was deployed to

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. From 1969 to 1972 she was assigned to training duties with the cadets of the Argentine Navy Academy. She was decommissioned in July 1972, and sold for scrapping to the company AYARSA in December 1972.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Azopardo Azopardo-class frigates Ships built in Argentina 1955 ships Frigates of the Argentine Navy