ARA Uruguay

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The corvette ARA Uruguay, is a floating museum ship, berthed at Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was built in England and commissioned into the Argentine navy in 1874: it was decommissioned in 1926. The last of the legendary squadron of President Sarmiento, the Uruguay took part in revolutions, expeditions, rescues, and was even floating headquarters of the Navy School. During its operational history 1874–1926 the Uruguay has served as a gunboat, school ship, expedition support ship, Antarctic rescue ship, fisheries base supply ship, and hydrographic survey vessel, and is now a museum ship in Buenos Aires. The ship was built in 1874 at Laird Bros. (now Cammell Laird) shipyard of Birkenhead, England, at a cost of £32,000. This ship is rigged to a barque sailplan (three masts, two of which have cross spars). The ship's steel hull is sheathed in teak. The ship's namesake is an earlier Argentine Navy schooner, a seven-gun combatant in the Battle of Juncal, 1827.

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