Corbeta A.R.A. Uruguay
25/05/08 21:31 Filed in: Argentina | Buenos Aires
Corbeta A.R.A Uruguay was built in Liverpool and commissioned into the Argentine navy in 1874. In a long and distinguished career she was for a time a sail training ship with the navy.
In 1903 she rescued members of the Nordenskjöld expedition after their ship “Antarctic “ had been crushed in the ice.
She was declared a national historic monument in 1967 and is now moored in Puerto Madero, Buenoa Aires.
I spent an hour or so looking around. Unfortunately I did not have my camera. A subsequent training vessel, Fragata Sarmiento, is also moored at Puerto Madero.
In 1903 she rescued members of the Nordenskjöld expedition after their ship “Antarctic “ had been crushed in the ice.
She was declared a national historic monument in 1967 and is now moored in Puerto Madero, Buenoa Aires.
I spent an hour or so looking around. Unfortunately I did not have my camera. A subsequent training vessel, Fragata Sarmiento, is also moored at Puerto Madero.