ARA Piedra Buena (P-36)

ARA Piedra Buena is a World War II era Argentine Navy warship, originally classified as patrol boat and later as antisubmarine frigate.

Piedra Buena was as part of a program to build four mine warfare and patrol ships during the Second World War, of which two (Murature and King) were completed as patrol boats and the others (Piedrabuena and Azopardo) as antisubmarine frigates.

[1] Piedra Buena was ordered in 1943, however significant delays caused it to be launched in 1954 and completed four years later.

[1] From 1969 to 1972 Piedra Buena was assigned to training duties with the cadets of the Argentine Navy Academy; in 1971 she suffered a fire in the engine room.

[1] She was decommissioned in July 1972, and sold for scrapping to the company AYARSA in December 1972.

Piedra Buena seen through the attack periscope of ARA Santiago del Estero (S-12) during naval exercises