ARA Moreno
Moreno was the second dreadnought of the Rivadavia class, and the fourth built during the South American dreadnoughts race. The ship is now listed as one of the U.S. Navy’s most expensive ships, with a price tag of more than $1.5 billion. It is the only ship of its type to have been named after a member of Argentina’s first government, the Argentine First Assembly.
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Moreno was the second dreadnought of the Rivadavia class, and the fourth built during the South American dreadnoughts race. Moreno’s genesis can be traced to the numerous naval arms races between Chile and Argentina, which in turn were spawned by territorial disputes over their mutual borders in Patagonia and Puna de Atacama. Moreno was completed in March 1915, a series of engine problems occurred during the sea trials which delayed its delivery to Argentina to May 1915. The next decade saw the ship based in Puerto Belgrano as part of the Argentine Navy’s First Division before sailing to the United States for an extensive refit in 1924 and 1925. During the 1930s the ship was occupied with diplomatic cruises to Brazil, Uruguay, and Europe until the Second World War broke out. Decommissioned in 1949, Moreno was scrapped in Japan beginning in 1957. It was named after Mariano Moreno, a key member of the first independent government of Argentina, the First Assembly. The ship is now listed as one of the U.S. Navy’s most expensive ships, with a price tag of more than $1.5 billion.
It is the only ship of its type to have been named after a member of Argentina’s first government, the Argentine First Assembly (1901-1910). The ship was also known as the “Rivadavia” class, which was built by the American Fore River Shipbuilding Company in the 1910s and 1920s. Its sister ship was the “Moreno” class (1921-1930). It is now considered to be the second most expensive battleship in the world, after HMS Dreadnought (1930-1941). It was scrapped at the end of the 1950s in Japan after being out of service for more than 20 years. It has been preserved in a museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina, along with its sister ship, the “Vicente Moreno” (1941-1955). It has also been used as a training ship by the Argentines for sailors and sailors from other navies, including the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy. Its name comes from the word Moreno, which means “to fight” or “to defend” in Latin American Spanish. The name Moreno is also used to refer to the ship that was built in the early 1900s by the Argentine Naval Commission (1910-1915).
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