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This is a list of active ships of the Chilean Navy, which is one of the three branches of the Chilean Armed Forces.The Chilean Navy's mission is to provide the Chilean State with naval power and an effective maritime service, to safeguard sovereignty and territorial integrity, maintain the security of the nation and support national interests when necessary and in any place required.
The list of decommissioned ships of the Chilean Navy is mostly compiled from information given in the website of the Chilean Navy.It consists of over 500 historical units including ships of the Patria Vieja, prizes, fireships, armed merchant ships, auxiliary ships, capital ships and, of course, regular warships of the navy ranging from the 25,000 long tons (25,000 t) capital ship Chilean ...
The Servicio Hidrográfico y Oceanográfico de la Armada de Chile (SHOA, Spanish for Hydrological and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy) is an agency of the Chilean Navy managing situations dealing with hydrology and oceanography including tides and tsunamis. SHOA is also the official Chilean government timekeeper.
Aircraft carried. Chile: 1 × AS.365 Dauphin N2. Colombia: 1 × Bo 105. Aviation facilities. Hangar for a medium size helicopter. The OPV-80 class is a class of offshore patrol vessels that are currently operated by the Chilean Navy and Colombian National Navy. The Argentine Navy have also expressed an interest in building these ships.
Esmeralda (BE-43) The ship is the sixth to carry the name Esmeralda. The first was the frigate Esmeralda captured from the Spanish at Callao, Peru, by Admiral Lord Thomas Cochrane of the Chilean Navy, in a bold incursion on the night of 5 November 1820. The second was the corvette Esmeralda of the Chilean Navy, which, set against superior ...
Almirante Latorre, named after Juan José Latorre, was a super-dreadnought battleship built for the Chilean Navy ( Armada de Chile ). It was the first of a planned two-ship class that would respond to earlier warship purchases by other South American countries. Construction began at Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne soon after the ship was ordered ...
Buques de vapor de la armada española, del vapor de ruedas a la fragata acorazada, 1834-1885. Agualarga. ISBN 978-84-95088-75-8; Coello, Juan Luis (1995). Buques de la Armada española años de la postguerra. Agualarga editores S.L.. ISBN 978-84-88959-15-7; Coello Lillo, Juan Luis; Agustín Ramón Rodríguez González (2001).
The list of active ships of the Argentine Navy includes ships currently [when?] in commission with the Navy, or operated by the Navy on behalf of other organizations. As of the mid-2020s, there were about 40 commissioned ships in the navy, including 3 destroyers, 1 amphibious support ship and 2 submarines (though both boats were non-operational ...