List of ships of the Mexican Navy

The list of Mexican Navy ships comprises all of the vessels that make up the Mexican Navy. The Mexican Navy operates one frigate, two missile boats, and a number of patrol ships for both offshore and inshore patrol. The Mexican Navy also has two tank landing ships at its disposal.

Ships by number

Destroyers

Manuel Azueta class - 1 - scuttled on 6 November 2017 in the Rizo reef zone off Antón Lizardo, Veracruz
Cuauhtémoc class - 2
Quetzalcóatl class - 2 - One ship scuttled on 24 November 2006 to form an artificial reef (her main tripod mast is on display at Mexican Pacific Fleet headquarters) & other ship was slated to also be sunk as an artificial reef

Frigates

California class - 4 - all ships scrapped in 1964-65
Brown class - 2 - both decommissioned
Allende class - 4 (one ship scuttled on 27 April 2022 East of Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico, and the other 1-3 were awaiting disposal at Tuxpan)
Reformador class - 1

Corvettes

Sierra class - 4 (one ship taken out of service, after a fire incident in 2003, & sunk as a target ship in 2007)

Missile boats

Huracan class - 2

Offshore patrol vessels

Valle class - 11 (10 ships still active, 1 still at least afloat in Guaymas in January 2009; 1 other ship's fate unknown, 5 ships previously-retired in 1988 or 2004, 1 previously-scuttled as a dive wreck & artificial reef on 3/3/2022 near San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico, and 1 more sunk in 2006 by the Mexican Navy)
California class - 5 (3 ships scrapped, 1 wrecked on the Bahia Peninsula on 16 January 1972 & 1 stricken from the Mexican Navy on 16 July 2001)
Coahuila class - 1 - stricken from the rolls of the Mexican Navy in July 2001
Uribe class - 5
Holzinger class - 4
Durango-class patrol vessel - 4
Oaxaca-class patrol vessel - 8

Coastal patrol boats

Interceptor patrol boats

Tank landing ships

Panuco class - 1 - used as a target ship & sunk in 2010, becoming an artificial reef
Papaloapan class - 2

Tugboats

List of ships

Decommissioned ships

Historical ship

References

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[Jan23-2] "Acuerdos Secretariales para Unidades de Superficie" (PDF) (in Spanish). Armada de Mexico. January 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 February 2024. Retrieved 22 February 2024.

[:0-3] "Buques de Investigación Oceanográfica". digaohm.semar.gob.mx. Retrieved 2022-01-23.

[Wertheim-4] Wertheim, Eric, ed. (2007). "Mexico". The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World: Their Ships, Aircraft, and Systems (15th ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 472. ISBN 978-1-59114-955-2. OCLC 140283156.

[Miramar-5] "Barber (6114753)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 16 December 2009.

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[7] "Destroyer Photo Index DD-574 USS JOHN RODGERS". www.navsource.org. Retrieved 2022-01-23.

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[10] "The History of the C-54 Agustin Melgar". Blue Nation Baja. 2018-08-31. Retrieved 2022-01-23.

[11] Cancun, Endless Tours (2010-08-11). "Endless Tours Cancun: C-58 Minesweeper Wreck Site - Advanced Diving Attraction". Endless Tours Cancun. Retrieved 2022-01-23.

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Hull no.	Ship name	Class		Date retired	Comment
PC-281	Punto Morro	Punto	Coastal patrol boat	Unknown
PC-282	Punto Mastun	Punto	Coastal patrol boat	Unknown
G-04	Ponciano Arriaga	Valle	Offshore patrol vessel	1988
G-17	Mariano Matamoros			Unknown, Before 1993
PO-101	Leandro Valle			2004
PO-105	Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada			2004
PO-107	Ignacio de la Llave			2004
PO-111	Ignacio Altamirano			2004	Supposedly seen abandoned, afloat near Guaymas, Mexico.
PO-115	Felipe Xicoténcatl			2004
PO-116	Juan Aldama			2004
B-03	California	California	Offshore patrol vessel	1972	Wrecked at Baja California, 16 January 1972
B-04	Papaloapan			1976	Scrapped after running aground, 1976
B-05	Tehuantepec			1989	Scrapped, 1989
B-06	Usumacinta			16 July 2001	Scrapped, 2002
B-07	Coahuila	Coahuila		July 2001	Renamed ARM Vincente Guerrero, 1994. Later renamed again to ARM Coahuila (E-21).^[4]^[5]
B-08	Chihuahua	California		16 July 2001
E-01	Cuauhtémoc	Cuauhtémoc	Destroyer	1982
E-02	Cuitláhuac	Cuauhtémoc	Destroyer	2001	Plans of converting the ship to a museum ship fell through and later scrapped.^[6]^[7]
E-03	Quetzalcoatl	Quetzalcóatl	Destroyer	2002	Renamed ARM Ilhuicamina (E-10), late 1982.
E-04	Netzahualcóyotl	Quetzalcóatl	Destroyer	2014
PO-142	Juarez	Sierra	Offshore patrol vessel / Corvette	2003	Sunk as target, 2007
-	California (1947)	California	Frigate	Unknown	Scrapped, 1964
	General José María Morelos			Unknown	Scrapped, 1964
	General Vicente Guerrero			Unknown	Scrapped, 1964
	Papaloapan			Unknown	Scrapped, 1965
F-201	Nicolas Bravo	Bravo	Frigate	2017
F-202	Hermenegildo Galeana	Bravo	Frigate	2017
A-01	Rio Panuco	Panuco	Tank landing ship	Unknown	Sunk as artificial reef, 2010
A-02	Manzanillo			16 November 2011
A-05	General Vincente Guerrero			Unknown	Renamed ARM Rio Grijalva (A-403), 1993.^[8]
A-06	Commodore Manuel Azueta	Manuel Azueta	Training ship / Destroyer	3 July 2015	Renamed ARM Commodore Manuel Azueta Perillos (E-30), 1994. Renamed again to ARM Commodore Manuel Azueta (D-111), 2001.^[9]
C-07	Guanajuato	-	Gunboat	2001	Museum ship in Boca del Río, since 2007
-	DM-01	DM-01	Minesweeper	2000	Sunk as artificial reef, August 2001
	DM-02			1986	Scrapped, 1 August 1988
	DM-03			16 July 2001
	DM-04 (1962)			April 1973	Replaced by another ship from the same class
	DM-04 (1973)			16 July 2001
	DM-05			1999	Sunk as artificial reef, 1999
	DM-06			1986
	DM-07			Unknown
	DM-08			Unknown
	DM-09			Unknown
	DM-10			1986
	DM-11			2000	Sunk as artificial reef, 2000^[10]
	DM-12			2000	Sunk as artificial reef, 2000
	DM-13			2000	Sunk as artificial reef, 2000
	DM-14			16 July 2001
	DM-15			Unknown
	DM-16			1986
	DM-17			2000
	DM-18			16 July 2001
	DM-19			16 July 2001
	DM-20			After 2007	Sunk as artificial reef, date unknown^[11]
H-41	Almirante Câmara	-	Research ship	2004
-	Sotoyomo	Sotoyomo	Tugboat	Unknown

Ship name	Type	Service	Fate
Guadaloupe	Frigate	1842-1847	Sold to the Spanish Navy at Cuba in August 1847
Montezuma	Frigate	1842-1846	Sold to the Spanish Navy at Cuba in August 1846
Meteoro	Brigantine	1848-1850	Sold to Chile, 1850
Libertad	Gunboat	1874-?
Independencia	Gunboat	1874-?
Guerra Demócrata	Gunboat	1875-?
Zaragoza	Corvette	1892-1926	Sunk as target, 1926
Agua Prieta	Gunboat	1920-1935
Anáhuac	Cruiser	1924-1938	Scrapped, 1938
Orizaba	Yacht	1939-1960	Scrapped, 1960

Hull no.	Ship name	Class	Type	Comment
F-101 / POLA-101	Benito Juárez	Reformador (Sigma 10514 LROPV)	Frigate / Oceanic Patrol Vessel	Mexican built Dutch design
F-211	Allende	Allende	Frigate	Purchased from the United States
F-212	Abasolo			Purchased from the United States
F-213	Victoria			Purchased from the United States
F-214	Mina			Purchased from the United States
A-301	Huracán	Huracán	Missile boat	Purchased from Israel
A-302	Tormenta	Huracán	Missile boat	Purchased from Israel
PO-102	Juan de la Barrera	Valle	Offshore patrol vessel	Purchased from the United States
PO-103	Mariano Escobedo			Purchased from the United States
PO-104	Manuel Doblado			Purchased from the United States
PO-106	Santos Degollado			Purchased from the United States
PO-108	Juan N. Álvarez			Purchased from the United States
PO-109	Manuel Gutiérrez Zamora			Purchased from the United States
PO-110	Valentín Gómez Farías			Purchased from the United States
PO-112	Francisco Zarco			Purchased from the United States
PO-113	Ignacio L. Vallarta			Purchased from the United States
PO-114	Jesús González Ortega			Purchased from the United States
PO-117	Mariano Matamoros			Purchased from the United States
PO-121	Uribe	Uribe	Offshore patrol vessel	Purchased from Spain
PO-122	Azueta			Purchased from Spain
PO-123	Baranda			Purchased from Spain
PO-124	Bretón			Purchased from Spain
PO-125	Blanco			Purchased from Spain
PO-126	Monasterio			Purchased from Spain
PO-131	Holzinger	Holzinger	Offshore patrol vessel	Built in Mexico
PO-132	Godínez			Built in Mexico
PO-133	De la Vega			Built in Mexico
PO-134	Berriozabal			Built in Mexico
PO-141	Sierra	Sierra	Offshore patrol vessel / Corvette	Designed and built in Mexico
PO-143	Prierto			Designed and built in Mexico
PO-144	Romero			Designed and built in Mexico
PO-151	Durango	Durango	Offshore patrol vessel	Designed and built in Mexico
PO-152	Sonora			Designed and built in Mexico
PO-153	Guanajuato			Designed and built in Mexico
PO-154	Veracruz			Designed and built in Mexico
PO-161	Oaxaca	Oaxaca	Offshore patrol vessel	Designed and built in Mexico
PO-162	Baja California			Designed and built in Mexico
PO-163	Independencia			Designed and built in Mexico
PO-164	Revolución			Designed and built in Mexico
PO-165	Chiapas			Designed and built in Mexico