ARA Rivadavia
Rivadavia was an Argentine battleship built during the South American dreadnought race. Named after the first Argentine president, Bernardino Rivadavia, it was the lead ship of its class. The ship saw no active service during the Second World War. It was sold later that year and broken up for scrap starting in 1959.
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Rivadavia was an Argentine battleship built during the South American dreadnought race. Named after the first Argentine president, Bernardino Rivadavia, it was the lead ship of its class. The ship saw no active service during the Second World War, and its last cruise was made in 1946. It was sold later that year and broken up for scrap starting in 1959. In 1907, the Brazilian government placed an order for two of the powerful new “dreadnought” warships as part of a larger naval construction program. Argentina quickly responded, as the Brazilian ships outclassed anything in the Argentine fleet. The United Kingdom’s Royal Navy bought the two Constitución-class pre-dreadNought battleships that were being built for Chile, and Argentina sold its two RivAdavia-class armored cruisers under construction in Italy to Japan. During their construction, there were rumors that the ships might be sold to a country engaged in the First World War.
Both were commissioned into the Argentine Navy and underwent extensive refits in the United States in 1924 and 1925. In 1957, the ship was sold for scrap and its name was removed from the Argentine naval register. It is now listed as one of the world’s largest naval arsenals, with a fleet of more than 1,000 ships. It has been named after a former president of Argentina and the current president of Chile, Bernardo de la Plata, as well as a former vice-president of Argentina, Rómulo Sebastián Naón, and a former prime minister of Argentina. The ships were named after two of Argentina’s former presidents, Rafael de la Rocha and Julio de Sylvia Maldonado, and their sister ship, Moreno, was named after Argentina’s first president, Bruno de Ricardo de Leroy. In the past, the ships had been subject of rumors that Argentina would sell them to a fast-growing military rival, or to a European country.
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