Ships Built in Argentina: Ara Gomez Roca, Ara Parker, Ara Robinson, Ara Spiro, Ara Cabo San Antonio, Ara Rosales, Ara Espora

Chapters: Ara Gomez Roca, Ara Parker, Ara Robinson, Ara Spiro, Ara Cabo San Antonio, Ara Rosales, Ara Espora. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: ARA Gomez Roca (P-46) is the sixth and last ship of the MEKO 140A16 Espora series of six corvettes built for the Argentine Navy. The ship is the first ship to bear the name of Lieutenant Commander Sergio Gomez Roca, who commanded the Argentine patrol ship ARA Alferez Sobral during the Falklands War (Spanish: ) and died in combat when the ship was attacked by Royal Navy helicopters. Originally the ship was to have been named Seaver after Captain Benjamin Seaver, a US-born naval hero of the Argentine War of Independence Gomez Roca and her sister ships were part of the 1974 Naval Constructions National Plan, an initiative by the Argentine Navy to replace old World War II-vintage ships with more advanced warships. The original plan called for six MEKO 360H2 destroyers, four of them to be built in Argentina, but the plan was later modified to include four MEKO destroyers and six corvettes for anti-surface warfare and patrol operations. Gomez Roca was constructed at the Rio Santiago Shipyards of the Astilleros y Fabricas Navales del Estado (State Shipyards and Naval Factories) state corporation. Her keel was laid down on June 7, 1983 and was launched on November 14, 1984. Budgetary concerns effectively suspended the construction of the ship for almost a decade, until it was decided to finish her and her sister ship Robinson. Following the resumption of construction, the ship was delivered to the Navy in 2004 and commissioned in 2005. Both Robinson and Gomez Roca benefitted from their construction delay by incorporating more advanced electronics than their four sister ships. As with Parker and Robinson, Gomez Roca is...http: //booksllc.net/?id=823641