MV Monsunen
Monsunen sailing under Danish flag (c. 1970) | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Denmark | |
| Name | Monsunen |
| Namesake | Monsoon |
| Owner | C.H.C.Andersen |
| Port of registry | Svendborg |
| Builder | H. C. Christensens Staal |
| Completed | 1957 |
| Maiden voyage | 1957 |
| Identification | IMO number: 5239876 |
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Monsunen |
| Acquired | 1972 |
| Commissioned | 1972 |
| Decommissioned | 1992 |
| Argentina | |
| Name | ARA Monsunen |
| Commissioned | 12 April 1982 |
| Decommissioned | 29 May 1982 |
| Notes | taken over by the Argentine Navy |
| Chile | |
| Name | Navisur |
| Commissioned | 1992 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | coaster |
| Tonnage | 326 GRT |
| Length | 109.8 ft (33.5 m) (originally) |
| Beam | 21.2 ft (6.5 m) |
| Depth | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
| Decks | 1 |
| Installed power | 280 NHP |
| Propulsion | 2 Alpha diesel engines |
| Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Complement | (as ARA Monsunen): 14 |
| Sensors & processing systems | Navigational radar |
| Armament | 2 × general purpose machine guns (as ARA Monsunen) |
MV Monsunen was a coaster ship built in Denmark in 1957 that operated as an inter-island supply vessel in the Falklands from 1972 to 1992. The ship was commandeered by the Argentine Navy in the course of the Falklands War, when she served as an armed transport linking the different Argentine garrisons scattered around the islands. In 1992 she was sold to a Chilean shipping company, and since then Monsunen, now renamed Navarino, serves as a coaster linking the island of Navarino with the port of Valparaíso.