Drummond-class corvette
ARA Granville (P-33) in 2005 | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Drummond class |
| Builders | Arsenal de Lorient |
| Operators | Argentine Navy |
| In service | 1978 |
| Completed | 3 |
| Retired | 3 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Corvette |
| Displacement | 1,170 tons (1,320 tons full load) |
| Length | 80 m (260 ft) |
| Beam | 10.3 m (34 ft) |
| Draught | 3.55 m (11.6 ft) |
| Installed power | 12,000 shp (8.9 MW) |
| Propulsion | 2 × SEMT Pielstick 12 PC 2.2 V400 diesels, 2 × controllable pitch propellers |
| Speed | 23.3 knots (43 km/h) |
| Range | 4,500 nautical miles (8,330 km) at 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Endurance | 15 days |
| Complement | 5 officers, 79 enlisted, 95 berths |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys |
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| Aviation facilities | small pad for VERTREP |
The Drummond class were three corvettes designed and built in France based on the A69 D'Estienne d'Orves-class avisos. The ships were commissioned in the Argentine Navy between 1978 and 1982.
The ships, when operational, served in the "Atlantic Area of Operations" of the Argentine Navy, based on Mar del Plata Naval Base, province of Buenos Aires. Their mission was to patrol Argentina's exclusive economic zone and to enforce fishing regulations, but according to reports in November 2012 they "hardly sail[ed] because of lack of resources for operational expenses". As of 2020 only Granville, which had been refitted in mid-2019, was reported operational, with the other ships of the class in reserve. In 2024, Granville was retired while the other two vessels of the class were put up for auction.