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The submarine's name derives from the province of San Juan; the names of all Argentine submarines begin with the letter S. Past ships with the same name are a destroyer (1911), a surveyor (1929), and a torpedo boat (1937). [9] The prefix ARA is the acronym of the Argentine Navy in Spanish (Spanish: Armada de la República Argentina). [10] [11]
ARA San Juan (S-42) in 2007. ARA San Juan (S-42), a TR-1700-class diesel-electric submarine in service with the Argentine Navy since 19 November 1985, was built in West Germany by Thyssen Nordseewerke. [4] She was laid down on 18 March 1982 and launched on 20 June 1983. San Juan underwent a mid-life update from 2008 to 2013, which included ...
The hotel's peak was during late XIX century and early XX century, when Tigre was one of the places chosen by the upper classes to spend their holidays. [3] The hotel had also the first casino in the country, but a law that forbidden gambling in Argentina promulgated in 1933 caused the building was closed, [4] [2] and finally demolished in 1940 ...
As of 2023, since 2020 the Submarine Force Command has had two submarines, both inactive. Following the disappearance of ARA San Juan in November 2017, one TR-1700 (ARA Santa Cruz (S-41)) and one Type 209 (ARA Salta (S-31)) submarines remain on the naval list, though neither is
The TR-1700 (Santa Cruz) is a class of diesel-electric patrol submarines built by Thyssen Nordseewerke for the Argentine Navy in the 1980s, with two submarines completed. These ships are amongst the largest submarines built in Germany since World War II and are among the fastest diesel-electric submarines in the world. [3]
ARA San Juan (1928), a survey vessel commissioned in 1928; she was renamed Comodoro Rivadavia in 1937 and Madryn in 1942; [2] sold in 1967. ARA San Juan (D-9), a Buenos Aires-class destroyer launched in 1937 and scrapped in 1973. [3] ARA San Juan (S-42), a TR-1700-class submarine launched in 1983 and lost in 2017.
The Tigre Club stands on the banks of the Luján River, in Paseo Victorica, Tigre, near Buenos Aires, Argentina.The club, built next to the Tigre Hotel (demolished in 1940), was financed by Ernesto Tornquist and was designed by the architects Pablo Pater, Luis Dubois and the engineer Emilio Mitre (son of the former President of Argentina, Bartolomé Mitre); [1] it was opened on 13 January 1912.
The submarine film is a subgenre of war film in which most of the plot revolves around a submarine below the ocean's surface. Films of this subgenre typically focus on a small but determined crew of submariners battling against enemy submarines or submarine-hunter ships, or against other problems ranging from disputes amongst the crew, threats ...