ALMIRANTE IRIZAR (Q-5) class

Country of Origin: Argentina

ship list


 1 ALMIRANTE IRIZAR-class ICEBREAKER (AGB)

 Name               Pendant No.   Launched       Commissioned    Status

 ALMIRANTE IRIZAR   Q-5           Feb. 3, 1978   Dec. 15, 1978   Under repair

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The ship was ordered on Dec. 15, 1975. She was used as a hospital ship (AH) between April and June of 1982 during the 1982 Falklands War.

She was refitted between September of 2002 and 2005. The ship is occasionally used during exercises as an amphibious troop transport

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