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ARA Drummond (P-31)
ARA Drummond (P-31) is the lead ship of the Drummond class of three corvettes of the Argentine Navy. She is the second vessel to be named after Navy Sgt Francisco Drummond.
Service History
Drummond was built in 1977 in France for the South African Navy to be named SAS Good Hope but was embargoed at the last minute due the apartheid by United Nations Security Council Resolution 418 and sold to Argentina instead and delivered on November 9, 1978.
She carried the P-1 pennant number until the introduction of the Espora class corvettes in 1985 when she became P-31.
In 1982 she served with her sister ships in the Falklands War ( ).
On 7 October 1983, during a live fire exercise, sunk old destroyer Almirante Domecq Garcia with a MM38 Exocet missile.
On 1994, based at Roosevelt Roads Naval Station she participated on the blockage of Haiti during Operation Uphold Democracy con el proposito de asegurar el cumplimiento del embargo comercial, dispuesto por el Consejo de Seguridad, por medio de las corbetas ARA Grandville, ARA Guerrico y ARA Drummond...
She had also served as support ship of the Buenos Aires-Rio de Janeiro tall ships races.
She is currently based at Mar del Plata and routinely conducted fishery patrol duties in the Argentine Exclusive Economic Zone.
The Sun incident
On 25 February 2010 the British tabloid The Sun reported that the Drummond had been intercepted and shepherded away by Royal Navy destroyer HMS York in the vicinity of the Falklands Islands. The story was published in the middle of a diplomatic dispute between the United Kingdom and Argentina about oil drilling escalating the crisis as the "first head-to-head of the Falklands row". The British Ministry of Defence quickly issued a denial. A spokesman said the incident had occurred a month earlier, before the oil dispute began; both ships were in the same zone in international waters during rough weather at night, and, after a friendly dialogue by radio, each had continued on its own exercise.
References
Portions based on a translation from Spanish Wikipedia.
Guia de los buques de la Armada Argentina 2005-2006. Ignacio Amendolara Bourdette, ISBN 987-43-9400-5, Editor n/a. (Spanish/English text)
External links
official site
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