ARA Murature (P-20)

Murature was a 900-ton World War II era Argentine Navy warship, originally classified as minelayer and later as patrol boat.

She took part of the 1955 rising against Juan Domingo Perón's government known as Revolución Libertadora, when she shot down a government Avro Lincoln bomber over the Rio de la Plata during the evacuation of the rebel naval base at Río Santiago.

[1] According to capitán de navio (R) Benjamín Cosentino [2] who acted as anti-submarine advisor to the Officer in Tactical Command, Argentine Destroyer Force in February 1960, he was sent to the School of Naval Warfare that month to write the final report on the 1960 Golfo Nuevo incident for the Argentine Naval General Staff.

In this incident, one or possibly two intruder submarines of unknown flag were present in Golfo Nuevo, Chubut Province, between the period 31 January and 17 February 1960 and eluded or survived all attempts to sink them.

Along with her sister ship ARA King, Murature was the oldest unit still in service in the Argentine navy as of 2014.