ARA Drummond (P-31)

ARA Drummond
History
South Africa
Name:	SAS Good Hope
Namesake:	Cape of Good Hope
Ordered:	February 1976
Builder:	Lorient, France
Laid down:	12 March 1976
Launched:	5 March 1977
Out of service:	17 November 1977
Fate:	Delivery blocked by UNSCR 418 during sea trials in France
Argentina
Renamed:	ARA Drummond
Namesake:
Ordered:	1978
Commissioned:	9 November 1978
Homeport:	Mar del Plata
Status:	active service as of 2010
General characteristics
Class and type:	Type A69 Drummond-class corvette
Displacement:	1,170 tons (1,320 tons full load)
Length:	80 m (260 ft)
Beam:	10.3 m (34 ft)
Draught:	3.55 m (11.6 ft)
Installed power:	12,000 shp (8.9 MW)
Propulsion:	2 × SEMT Pielstick 12 PC 2.2 V400 diesels, 2 × CP propellers
Speed:	23.3 knots (43 km/h)
Range:	4,500 nautical miles (8,330 km) at 16 knots (30 km/h)
Endurance:	15 days
Complement:	5 officers, 79 enlisted, 95 berths
Sensors and processing systems:	Thales DRBV 51A air/surface search Thales DRBC-32E fire control Consilium Selesmar NavBat Thales Diodon hull MF sonar
Electronic warfare & decoys:	Thales DR 2000 S3 Thales Alligator 51 jammer 2 × 18 Corvus decoys
Armament:	4 × MM38 Exocet anti-ship missiles 1 × 100 mm/55 Mod.1968 dual purpose gun 1 × twin Bofors 40 mm L/70 AA guns 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns 2 × .50cal Colt M2 machine guns 2 × triple 324 mm ILAS-3 tubes (WASS A-244S torpedoes)
Aviation facilities:	small pad for VERTREP

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.

She is currently based at Mar del Plata and conducts fishery patrol duties in the Argentine exclusive economic zone, where she has captured several trawlers in recent years. According to reports in November 2012 the Drummond class "hardly sail because of lack of resources for operational expenses".

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 by United Nations Security Council Resolution 418 over apartheid. The vessel was sold to Argentina instead and delivered on 9 November 1978.

She carried the pennant number P-1 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 off Mar del Plata, she sunk the old destroyer Almirante Domecq Garcia with a MM38 Exocet missile.

On 1994, from her temporary base at Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, she participated on the blockade of Haiti during Operation Uphold Democracy.

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