ARA Cabo de Hornos (B-5)
Cabo de Hornos docked
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| Name: | Cabo de Hornos |
| Namesake: | Cape Horn |
| Ordered: | 1975 |
| Builder: | Príncipe, Menghi y Penco shipyard, Argentina |
| Launched: | 1978 |
| Commissioned: | 1979 |
| Identification: | IMO number: 7229031 |
| Status: | In service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Costa Sur-class cargo ship |
| Displacement: | 10,894 tons full load |
| Length: | 119.9 m (393 ft) |
| Beam: | 17.5 m (57 ft) |
| Draught: | 7.49 m (24.6 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 2 Sulzer 6 ZL 40/48 diesel engines, 6,400 hp (4,800 kW), 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 16.3 knots (30.2 km/h) max; 12 knots (22 km/h) cruise |
| Capacity: | bulk cargo: 9,857 m3 (348,100 cu ft) or 6,800 tons |
| Complement: | 40 |
| Notes: | characteristics from Argentine Navy official website. |
ARA Cabo de Hornos (B-5) is a cargo ship in service with the Argentine Navy since 1979, capable of transporting bulk cargo, live cattle, and containers. She is the second ship in the Argentine Navy to bear the name of the Cape Horn in the south of Tierra del Fuego.
Cabo de Hornos (B-5) is one of three Costa Sur-class cargo ships ordered by the Argentine Navy in 1975, designed and built by the Argentine Príncipe, Menghi y Penco shipyard, at Buenos Aires, Argentina. The design is optimised for Patagonic coastal service.
Cabo de Hornos has a steel hull and the superstructure at the stern, with a single mast and a single funnel atop, behind the bridge; the cargo area is located in the middle of the ship and three “Liebherr” cranes serve the three holds, one each. She has a bulk cargo capacity of 9,856 m3 (348,100 cu ft) or 6,300 tons (e.g.: coal, cereals, live cattle), and can carry up to 140 containers.
Cabo de Hornos is powered by two 6-cylinder Sulzer 6 ZL 40/48 marine diesel engines of 3,200 hp (2,400 kW) each, driving two variable-pitch propellers; with a maximum speed of 16.3 knots (30.2 km/h; 18.8 mph).
With the ships then operating with “Naval Transport Service” ((in Spanish) Servicio de Transportes Navales) approaching obsolescence, the Argentine Navy was authorized (via decree 3/10/1975) to order the local construction of three cargo ships for the southern coastal service. The ships, with hull optimised for Patagonic coastal service, were designed and built by the Argentine Príncipe, Menghi y Penco shipyard, at Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the late 1970s and are denominated the Costa Sur class.
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