Costa Sur-class cargo ship
ARA Bahía San Blas (B-4), date unknown
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Costa Sur class |
| Builders: | Príncipe, Menghi y Penco, Argentina |
| Operators: |
 Argentine Navy
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| Built: | 1977–1979 |
| In service: | 1978–present |
| In commission: | 1978–present |
| Planned: | 3 |
| Completed: | 3 |
| Active: | 3 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | 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 shaft |
| Speed: | |
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| Complement: | 40 |
| Notes: | characteristics from Argentine Navy official website. |
The Costa Sur-class cargo ship is a class of three cargo ships designed and built in Argentina in 1975–1979 for servicing the Patagonic coast routes; capable of transporting bulk cargo, live cattle, and containers. The ships have been in service with the Argentine Navy since 1978. The class is named after the southern coastal area of Argentina which was designed to service.
The Costa Sur class was part of a program to replace cargo ships then in service and reaching obsolescence; three ships were ordered by the Argentine Navy in 1975, and designed and built by the Príncipe, Menghi y Penco shipyard, located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The design is optimised for Patagonic coastal service, which sometimes require them to beach on the shore.
The ships in this class have 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 cargo holds: one 5 ton crane serves hold 1, one 12.5 ton crane serves hold 2, and one 12.5 ton crane serves hold 3; the latter can be used simultaneously to provide a 25 ton joint lifting capacity into either hold 2 or 3. The ships have a bulk cargo capacity of 9,700 m3 (340,000 cu ft) or 6,800 tons (e.g.: coal, cereals, live cattle), a refrigerated cargo capacity of 210 m3 (7,400 cu ft), and can carry up to 140 containers.
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