The Rio Santiago Shipyard is a shipyard located in the city of Ensenada, Buenos Aires Province at the shores of the Santiago River. Currently owned by the Government of Buenos Aires Province, it has been one of the major active and important shipyards in Latin America . Founded in 1953, it has realized diverse functions in the naval, industrial and railroad sectors. In its golden age the shipyard reached 8,000 workers on double shift. In 2008 relies on 2,700 workers.
41-628: The most famous work was the construction, in 1962, of the Fragata Libertad . In 1966 this vessel obtained the world speed record in sailing on its voyage across the North Atlantic , covering a distance of 2,058.6 nautical miles (3,812.5 km) in 8 days and 12 hours. The race began in Cape Race , Canada and ended at an imaginary line set between Dublin and Liverpool . It has a Technical management staff that operates by departments which manage
82-529: A Department of Quality Control that verifies that works stay within the International Norms and Registries. The Rio Santiago Shipyard started its activities on June 15 of 1953, by the Decree N° 10.627 that established the creation of "Astilleros y Fábricas Navales del Estado (AFNE)", a company integrated by the "Astillero Río Santiago (ARS)" and by the "Fábrica Naval de Explosivos Azul (FANAZUL)", dependent of
123-754: A State Anonymous Society. Between 1970 and 1976, the shipyard signed and started the construction of five cargo ships each of 9,000 tons built for the Empresa Líneas Marítimas Argentinas (ELMA), two tankers of 60,000 tons each for YPF , two bulk-carriers with 23,700 tons of displacement and four cargo ships with 14,450 tons of displacement, also for ELMA. It constructed diesel motors and cranes for its ships and other shipyards and train motors for Ferrocarriles Argentinos (the State-owned rail transport company of Argentina ). It also constructed elements for hydraulic turbines, nuclear components (through
164-458: A license with Atomic Energy of Canada), and bogies for railroads (through a license with American Steel Foundry). In the mid-1970s it employed approximately 5,500 employees and nearly 3,000 employees hired by distant client companies that directly affected production. This factory, the largest in Argentina, suffered its worst crisis in the 1990s when it almost became private, finally ending up as
205-608: A part of the Buenos Aires province. After suffering the third change of direction in two years, the Rio Santiago Shipyard was back to work at full capacity for the first time in two decades. After president of Venezuela Hugo Chávez visited the shipyard in 2005, both governments signed contracts to provide eight tanks for the Venezuelan oil company. Construction of the first block of the "Eva Perón" started on 18 January, one of
246-524: A sailing boat. Krylkov then substituted a new ship based on the first photograph he found of a large frigate, not knowing he was drawing a ship that had never been to Arkhangelsk. Ensenada, Argentina Ensenada ( Spanish pronunciation: [enseˈnaða] ) is a city and port in Buenos Aires Province , Argentina, located around the Ensenada de Barragán . It has 31,031 inhabitants as per
287-413: A total sail area of 2,652 square meters . Masts have a circular cross section , formed by welded steel sheets between 9.5mm and 12mm thick. The vessel carries four fully functional 47 mm QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss cannons, 1891 model, which were transferred from the previous school ship ARA Presidente Sarmiento . Although only used as a protocolar salute battery, these cannons make Libertad
328-428: Is 229 hectares and 55 acres (220,000 m), but the surface area affected by the industrial work is approximately 100 hectares. The buildings used to be united by a series of tunnels for the electric, water vapor, and compressed air feeders, which reach a length of more than five kilometers. The holding beaches for materials and parking lots are covered with asphalt covering a surface area of 40,000 square meters, and
369-417: Is an all square rigged vessel, with bowsprit and three steel masts –Fore, Main (height of 56,2m), and Mizzen with boom – with double topsails and five yardarms each, which can rotate up to 45 degrees on each side. Five jibs are fixed to the bowsprit. All masts have five square sails, with the foremast and mainmast having three staysails , and the mizzen, a spanker , summing up 27 dacron sails with
410-513: The Argentine Army , Air Force and Coast Guard , students, journalists and distinguished people from different areas and disciplines, both local and foreign. The ship's follows the archetypal windjammer design, with a clipper bow and a wood-carved figurehead representing Liberty in a long flowing robe and a cruiser stern bearing the Argentine coat of arms in cast bronze . She
451-645: The Boston Teapot Trophy nine times in total: in 1966, 1976, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1992, 1998, 2000, and 2007. In 1970 she was part of the "Parade of Large Sailboats" in Sydney celebrating the bicentenary of the first European settlement in Australia . The ship took part in the celebrations of the United States Bicentennial on July 4, 1976, by sailing in parade, with many other tall ships from all over
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#1732852097332492-525: The 2001 census [ INDEC ] . It is the capital of Ensenada Partido , and together with Berisso Partido they are the main suburbs of the Gran La Plata conurbation around the provincial capital of La Plata . The port of Ensenada carries grain and beef exports, as well as industrial shipments. The volume traded has been recently growing at the expense of the Buenos Aires port, located 60 km to
533-455: The Admiralty (Spanish: "Ministerio de Marina"). When the construction was completed, the Rio Santiago Shipyard had many workshops that produced essential elements. These include a machine shop for bolts and adjustments, furnaces for iron and copper, electronics, and sections for carpentry and paint. It had a sustained growth during its first years. In 1969 it modified its legal status and became
574-586: The Argentine Navy, the first ones after 32 years. The design, named LICA ( (in Spanish) Lancha de Instrucción de Cadetes de la Armada ) was developed by the shipyard's engineering team. It was expected that construction will start in early 2016. In August 2018, the company suffered multiple dismissals and, faced with the possible closure of the Río Santiago Shipyard plant, the workers mobilized in
615-414: The Argentine Navy. The propulsion plant was upgraded to two MAN B&W turbocharged diesel engines mod. 6L23/30-D, each with six inline cylinders and 960 kW at 900 rpm that improved performance to a maximum speed of 13.73 knots and a cruising speed of 12.5 knots (from previous 13.5 and 8 knots respectively) This modification included replacing the propeller shaft. The radar navigation system
656-859: The Navy's Instruction Division, formally starting out as the country's school ship. One year later, on 28 May 1963, the finished frigate was delivered to the Argentine Navy and, with the ceremonial hoisting of the Argentine Ensign , formally commissioned to replace ARA La Argentina as the Navy's school ship. On June 19, and without her figurehead attached (still being carved in wood by Galician-Argentine sculptor Carlos García González ), she sailed from Buenos Aires on her first training voyage in command of Captain Horacio Ferrari, along with officers Orlando Perez Cobo, Heinz Otto Grunewald, and Lieutenant Commander Mario A. Manfredi as public relations officer. In 1964
697-523: The city of La Plata to defend their jobs. The response of the provincial government, was the repression with rubber bullets and tear gas that caused serious incidents, registering several injured people. The shipyard is situated in the city of Ensenada, Argentina at the shores of the Santiago River, in front of the Escuela Naval Militar (Military Naval School). The Rio Santiago Shipyard's area
738-510: The different areas of work, such as preparing ships, armament, electricity, planning of water ways, machinery, structure, basic projects, etcetera. It also has a Department of Quality Control that verifies that works stay within the International Norms and Registries. It has a Technical management staff that operates by departments which manage the different areas of work, such as preparing ships, armament, electricity, planning of water ways, machinery, structure, basic projects, etcetera. It also has
779-603: The fire under control after three hours. Following this incident, between 2004 and 2006 the instructional trips were made aboard the multipurpose ship Hercules . ARA Libertad participated in Velas Sudamerica 2010 , an historical Latin American tour by eleven tall ships to celebrate the bicentennial of the first national governments of Argentina and Chile . In 2004 she underwent a general mid-life update with special effort put into security and comfort, seeking to extend
820-759: The forecourse yardarm, forcing her to abandon the race and return to New York under engine power. Libertad suffered only light damage (two torn sails, smashed lifeboats and port rail) and, like Christian Radich, continued in the competition without problems. In 1985 raced in "Sail Amsterdam" in the Netherlands and in the celebrations for the Statue of Liberty centenary in New York City . One year later Libertad sailed in Bremerhaven in Germany . In 1989, among many events, she
861-576: The frigate competed for the first time in a major offshore race for tall ships between the ports of Lisbon and Hamilton, Bermuda . In 1965 she completed her first round-the-world trip. In 1966, during her fourth instruction voyage, ARA Libertad won the Great Medal Prize for establishing the tall ships' world record for crossing the North Atlantic Ocean using only sail propulsion. She did so by running between Cape Race ( Canada ) and
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#1732852097332902-744: The gathering of tall ships "The Navy of the Century" in France. By presidential decree number 727 (May 30, 2001) the frigate was designated as "Embassy of the Republic as a matter of honorary distinction and with purely protocolar effect". On 2 October 2003, she caught fire while anchored off the Spanish port of Ferrol during that year's training trip. The incident severely damaged the ship's hull and bedrooms of aspiring midshipmen, and five sailors were hospitalized for smoke inhalation . Three fire fighting squads brought
943-616: The imaginary line going from Dublin to Liverpool –2,058.6 nautical miles (3,812.5 km)– in 8 days and 12 hours, a record that has not been beaten. During the same trip, she also set the 124-hour run record for a sail school ship at 1,335 nautical miles, for which she was awarded the Boston Teapot Trophy. The captain was Commander Ricardo Guillermo Franke, and the Boston Teapot was presented by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in name of Queen Elizabeth II . Libertad has won
984-545: The internal streets of the shipyard are also covered in asphalt totaling 70,000 square meters. It also has seven kilometers of internal railroads that connect with the Ensenada city branch. The frigate ARA Libertad (Q-2) was the third ship built by the shipyard; delivered to the Argentine Navy in 1962, she made her first voyage in 1963. Since its commission she covered more than 800,000 nautical miles (1,500,000 km) around
1025-658: The largest and fastest tall ships in the world, holder of several speed records, she was designed and built in the 1950s by the Río Santiago Shipyard , Ensenada , Argentina . Her maiden voyage was in 1961, and she continues to be a training ship with yearly instruction trips for the graduating naval cadets as well as a traveling goodwill ambassador , having covered more than 800,000 nautical miles (1,500,000 km) across all seas, visited about 500 ports in more than 60 countries, and trained more than 11,000 navy graduates. The ninth Argentine Navy vessel to bear
1066-471: The name Libertad , she has a total length (including bowsprit ) of 103.75 m; a beam of 14.31 m; a draft of 6.60 m; and a displacement of 3,765 tonnes : these figures place ARA Libertad as the world's sixth longest tall ship and the third heaviest in displacement. Her complement is 357, including 24 officers, 187 crewmen and 150 naval cadets, among them an ever-increasing number of invited officers from friendly nations' armed forces , personnel from
1107-552: The second most heavily armed tall ship in the world. Continuously since 1873 the Argentine Navy had a number of commissioned school ships in active service for training future officers in seamanship skills. In 1938, after retirement of ARA Presidente Sarmiento as seagoing academy vessel, her role was temporarily undertaken by the light cruiser ARA La Argentina . The project for a definitive replacement ship fully conceived and built by Argentines started in 1946. On 11 December 1953, during Juan Domingo Perón 's second term ,
1148-666: The ship's crew returned to Argentina, leaving the captain and 43 crew members with the ship in Ghana. On 15 December 2012 the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ruled unanimously that the ship had immunity as a military vessel, and ordered that "Ghana should forthwith and unconditionally release the frigate ARA Libertad ", and report to the Tribunal on compliance by 22 December. Libertad
1189-474: The three years Libertad was under overhaul, cadets sailed on the Navy's corvettes ARA Rosales , ARA Spiro , ARA Parker and on the Chilean Navy school ship Esmeralda (BE-43) In early October 2012 the vessel was impounded in the port of Tema , Ghana , by a court ruling in favour of NML Capital, a subsidiary of Cayman Islands hedge fund Elliott Management Corporation , which claimed that it
1230-432: The two platforms being built for PDVSA . Nevertheless, by 2015 only one of those eight ships had been built, but they were never inaugurated. In March 2006, the "Madrisa" was launched, a cargo ship, technically called bulk carrier, built for a German customer. The shipyard had been given offers to build oil platforms that will require, in case the job was acquired, that it shared part of the work with another shipyard that
1271-448: The vessel's keel was laid down at the Río Santiago Shipyard, A.F.N.E. ("State Shipbuilding and Naval Factories", itself a peronist creation). Between 1954 and 1955 the shipyard engineers included several modifications to the vessel's original design and configuration. During the de facto government of the self called " Liberating Revolution " the name "Libertad" was imposed by decree number 7922 (April 27, 1956). On 30 May 1956 she
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1312-537: The vessel's lifespan for at least another forty years. The extensive works were finished in April 2007 and included: The overhaul, performed at Río Santiago Shipyard by more than 350 workers, required 285 tonnes of metal for the hull, decks and internal structures and over 25 tonnes of different shaped steel profiles . Bedrooms and bathrooms were refitted to allow the incorporation of female midshipmen, corporals and sergeants , in line with current diversity policies in
1353-422: The world and spent about 17 years at sea. She has been used for training for nearly 11,000 officers of the Argentine Navy . 34°50′53″S 57°53′58″W / 34.84816°S 57.89944°W / -34.84816; -57.89944 Fragata Libertad ARA Libertad (Q-2) is a steel - hulled , full-rigged , class "A" sailing ship that serves as a school vessel in the Argentine Navy . One of
1394-514: The world, on the Hudson River , in front of New York City , in what was called Operation Sail . She also participated in 1964, 1986, 1992 and 2012. During 1976's Operation Sail the Spanish ship Juan Sebastián Elcano collided with Libertad and with the full-rigged, three masted Norwegian ship Christian Radich just off the coast of Bermuda . The collision snapped Elcano' s foremast just above
1435-507: Was "unjustified, and could have endangered the security of Ghana by triggering a diplomatic conflict." The Libertad is depicted in the port of Arkhangelsk on the Russian 500,000-ruble bill (1997) and 500-ruble bill (1998, 2001, 2004). According to Honored Artist of Russia Igor Krylkov, his original design featuring a steamship was rejected by the Central Bank of Russia , which preferred
1476-467: Was currently closed. The Corrientes Shipyard was being kept in mind for this job, since it already has experience building offshore platforms for Thailand . In September 2010, signed a preliminary agreement with Ukrainian shipyard Chernomorsky Shipbuilding in order to gain experience in the construction of ice class ships. In November 2015 it was announced that the ARS shipyard will build 2 small ships for
1517-542: Was launched to sea, but her completion and commissioning suffered the vicissitudes of that Argentine period's unease political situation. The sea trials began in March 1961 and were carried to term under the command of Captain Atilio Porretti, who ordered changes to the vessel's rigging and figurehead. During this baptism voyage the ship successfully rode out a violent South Atlantic Ocean tempest . In March 1962 she joined
1558-443: Was owed US$ 370m (£233m) as a consequence of Argentina's debt defaults of 2002, and was seeking payment of $ 20m for release of the vessel. NML was not originally a creditor, but bought the debt for "pennies on the dollar" according to Forbes . Argentina's foreign ministry condemned the move, claiming it as "a stunt" pulled by " vulture funds , who are not subject to the laws of any jurisdiction". On 25 October 2012 most of
1599-591: Was part of "Les Voiles de la Liberté" for the bicentennial of the French Revolution in the port of Rouen , France . In 1992 was part of the great Cadiz regatta in commemoration of the 500 anniversary of Columbus ' 1492 voyage . In 1997 she sailed in the international race "Sail Osaka 97" in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the port of Osaka , Japan . In 1998 Libertad won Americas' Sail tall ship race between Savannah, Georgia and Glen Cove, New York , United States . In 1999 took part in
1640-621: Was released from Tema on 19 December. She arrived on 9 January 2013 to the port of Mar del Plata , where the ship got an enthusiastic homecoming. Following the International Tribunal ruling, the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority sued NML Capital for damages of least US$ 7.6 million related to the Libertad's impoundment. The Supreme Court of Ghana ruled in June 2013 that the 77-day impoundment
1681-443: Was replaced by an advanced model that holds greater scope and definition. The vessel update also included changing all power, communications, alarm, signalling and monitoring cabling, an adaptation required for the newly incorporated systems. The rigging was fully upgraded, which included bringing down, checking and repairing the spars , and renewing more than 55,000 meters of ropes , shrouds , backstays and steel cables . During