Coast guard ship 'Delfin' belonging to the "Prefectura Naval Argentina", leaving the port of Buenos Aires on August 23, 2023.

She was originally a whaling ship whose construction began in 1956 by the Dutch shipyard Ijsselwerf and completed in 1957 by the builder Werf de Hoog in Rotterdam. She was the first in a serie of five sister ships called sequentially R-1 to R-5.

Owned by Compañía de Navegación Rosina (Panama) from 1957 to 1959, when she was sold to Calpe Shipping Co. (Gibraltar). In 1969 she was bought by argentine goverment and assigned as a patrol boat to Prefectura Naval Argentina in 1970.

Name: Delfín
Pennant number: GC-13
MMSI: 701521000
Call sign: L2AF
Flag: Argentina
Length: 59 m.
Breadth: 9 m.
Depth: 4,8 m.
Draught (max.): 4,3 m.
Displacement: 1.000 t.
Speed: 16,8 knots