Rivadavia-class
An item reported that the guns for the two new 27.500 ton Argentinean battleships Moreno (1) and Rivadavia (2) and the 48 guns needed for the 12 destroyers were to be delivered by Bethelem Steel Company, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. The 30,5cm guns fired two shells a minute with a weight of 393 kilo able to pierce a 35,6cm armour plate on a distance of 6 kilometres. The 15cm and 10cm guns fired shells with a weight of respectively 47,6 and 15 kilo.
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1. Of the Rivadavia-class consisting of the Rivadavia and the Moreno. Laid down by the New York Shipbuilding, Camden, New Jersey, USA on 9 July 1910, launched on 23 September 1911, completed on 15 February 1915, part of the reserve in 1923, modernized in the USA 1923-1924 including from coal to oil fuelling, decommissioned in 1949, served as barracks, prison ship in 1955, stricken on 1 October 1956, sold on 11 January 1957 to the Yawata Iron and Steel Company, towed by the Dutch tugs Clyde and Ocean Moreno towards Japan where she arrived on 17 August 1957. .
2. Of the Rivadavia-class consisting of the Rivadavia and the Moreno. Laid down by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA on 25 May 1910, launched on 26 August 1811, finally broken up at Savona, Italy in 1959 onwards. Original armament 12-30,5cm/12” guns, 12-15,2cm/6” guns, 16-10,2c,/4” guns and 2-53,3cm/21” torpedo tubes.
