ARA Teniente Olivieri (A-2)

Tte Olivieri departing Jubany base on Antarctica
History
Argentina
Name: Teniente Olivieri
Namesake: Lieutenant Olivieri
Launched: 1981
Status: in active service
General characteristics
Displacement: 1640 tons (full)
Length: 56.3 m (185 ft)
Beam: 12.2 m (40 ft)
Draft: 4.3 m (14 ft)
Propulsion:
  • 2 × Diesel-electric engines,
  • single screw
Speed: 14 knots (26 km/h)
Range: 2,800 mi (4,500 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Complement: 39 [1]
Armament: 2 × 12.7mm machine-guns

The ARA Teniente Olivieri (A-2) is a ship in service with the Argentine Navy classified as aviso.[2]

Homebased at Ushuaia, she is normally assigned to operate in Antarctica during the summer campaigns in the Patrulla Antártica Naval Combinada (English: Joint Antarctic Naval Patrol) with the Chilean Navy to guarantee safety to all tourist and scientific ships that are in transit within the Antarctic Peninsula.[3]

Service

Built in 1981 as Marsea 10 by Quality Shipyard at New Orleans, USA as a support ship and tug for oil rigs.[2]

In November 1987 was acquired by the U.S. Maritime Administration.

It is the first ship to bear the name of Midshipman Olivieri killed on the ARA Alferez Sobral bridge during the Falklands War ( Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas )

References

  1. ↑ El aviso “Teniente Olivieri” cumplió con la etapa final de la patrulla antártica Archived July 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. (Spanish)
  2. 1 2 Patrulleras Argentinas:Parte 3. Aviso Clase Teniente Olivieri / Supply-Marsea (ATF), 24 July 2009 (Spanish)
  3. ↑ Arriba el Aviso “Teniente Olivieri” para prestar apoyo a las actividades antárticas Archived September 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. (Spanish)

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