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Argentine fleet

The Argentine fleet flag is blue with a white foul anchor. Rosanoski assumes light blue but allows that it may have been mid-blue; Brown also lists it as Argentine State Merchant Fleet.

Argentina’s state fleet, FME, replaced foreign tonnage lost to its ports during the Second World War. An account gives an agreement on 25 August 1941 to acquire sixteen Italian ships, while stating that they entered the Argentine flag on 7 July; the fleet decree followed on 16 October and operations on 1 November. Eight ships were bought outright and the others repurchased by Italy after the war. German, Danish, French and Romanian vessels were also acquired. Merchant Ships instead traces formation to Compañia Argentina de Navegación Lloyd Argentina in 1940 and reformation as FME in 1942. The fleet came under Empresa Nacional de Transportes in 1952 and merged into Empresa Lineas Maritimas Argentinas in 1961, or 1962 in Rosanoski’s later comment.

Argentine, Buenos Aires.

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