The Veinticinco de Mayo-class heavy cruisers were hybrids related to the Italian Trento line. La Argentina was a British-built adaptation of the Arethusa class with three triple turrets and nine guns. Together the ships show a smaller navy selecting and modifying foreign design families for its own requirements instead of merely buying standard export hulls.
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Argentina adapts Italian and British cruiser ideas
Argentina's cruiser purchases combined Italian heavy-cruiser lineage with a British-built training cruiser derived from the Arethusa class.