The ship was authorised in 1934, and the contract was put out to tender in 1935, being won by the British company Vickers-Armstrongs at a cost of 6 million pesos.
В 1935 году конкурс выиграла британская фирма "Vickers-Armstrongs", запросившая за корабль 6 миллионов аргентинских песо.