Murature is a 900 ton World War II era Argentine navy warship, originally classified as minelayer and later as patrol boat. The vessel was named after José Luis Murature

José Luis Murature

José Luis Murature was an Argentine lawyer, journalist, professor and foreign minister of Argentina from 1914-1916.Born in Buenos Aires, the son of José P. Murature and Dolores Legarrete, he was educated at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and the University of Buenos Aires. Murature was...

, Foreign Minister

Foreign minister

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 of Argentina

Argentina

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 from 1916-18. Murature was laid down in 1944 and commissioned in 1945. She took part of the 1955 raising against Juan Domingo Perón's government known as Revolución Libertadora

Revolución Libertadora

The Revolución Libertadora was a military uprising that ended the second presidential term of Juan Perón in Argentina, on September 16, 1955.-History:...

, when she shot down a loyal Avro Lincoln

Avro Lincoln

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 bomber over the Rio de la Plata

Río de la Plata

The Río de la Plata —sometimes rendered River Plate in British English and the Commonwealth, and occasionally rendered [La] Plata River in other English-speaking countries—is the river and estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River on the border between Argentina and...

. Along with her sister ship ARA King, Murature is the older unit still in service on the Argentine navy as far as 2011.