Qualla: Port Belgrano Naval Base https://qualla.com/port-belgrano-naval-base en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/5/f/port-belgrano-naval-base-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Port Belgrano Naval Base https://qualla.com/port-belgrano-naval-base Port Belgrano Naval Base: Introduction https://qualla.com/port-belgrano-naval-base/ Photo credit Silvinarossello, CC BY-SA 3.0. Forty kilometers from a monument shaped like a wave, the Argentine fleet has ridden at anchor for more than a century. Port Belgrano, beside the town of Punta Alta near Bahía Blanca, is the largest naval base in the country, the home of the Sea Fleet, and the place where Argentina concentrates its major warships and arsenals. It takes its name from a small sailing ship, the brigantine General Belgrano, that charted these waters in 1824, which in turn honored Manuel Belgrano, a founding father of the nation. The base is not just a harbor. It is a small city of the navy, and increasingly, a launching ground aimed at space.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/5/f/port-belgrano-naval-base-wp/695f-port-belgrano-naval-base-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Port Belgrano Naval Base: Finding the Deep Water https://qualla.com/port-belgrano-naval-base/ Photo credit Onelockeprox, Public domain. The base exists because someone went looking for the right water. A ship's captain, Félix Dufourq, carried out the studies that identified this sheltered, naturally deep stretch of coast as the ideal place to build. The Italian engineer Luis Luiggi designed the works, and on 30 N...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/5/f/port-belgrano-naval-base-wp/695f-port-belgrano-naval-base-finding-the-deep-water.mp3 0:06 2 full Port Belgrano Naval Base: A Century of Fleets https://qualla.com/port-belgrano-naval-base/ Photo credit Martín Otero, CC BY 2.5. As the Argentine navy grew, so did Port Belgrano. Through both World Wars, the fleet's heavy ships were docked here. During the Cold War, the base sheltered aircraft carriers. The shipyard has never stopped working, maintaining and refitting vessels and submarines decade after de...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/5/f/port-belgrano-naval-base-wp/695f-port-belgrano-naval-base-a-century-of-fleets.mp3 0:06 3 full Port Belgrano Naval Base: The Ship That Did Not Come Home https://qualla.com/port-belgrano-naval-base/ Photo credit Ch nch, CC BY-SA 3.0. One name echoes here above the others. The cruiser ARA General Belgrano made Port Belgrano her home for some thirty years. On 2 May 1982, during the Falklands War, a British submarine torpedoed her, and she went down with 323 of her crew. It was a defining tragedy of that conflic...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/5/f/port-belgrano-naval-base-wp/695f-port-belgrano-naval-base-the-ship-that-did-not-come-home.mp3 0:06 4 full Port Belgrano Naval Base: Aiming for Orbit https://qualla.com/port-belgrano-naval-base/ Photo credit Martín Otero, CC BY 2.5. The base's newest mission points straight up. On land ceded to Argentina's space agency, CONAE, engineers are building the Centro Espacial Manuel Belgrano, intended as the launch site for the country's home-grown Tronador family of rockets. The location was chosen for reasons the...

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