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The ARA Towora (P-84) or Towwora (originally LT-3 ) was a torpedo boat of the Argentine Navy, currently exhibited on the waterfront of Ushuaia, capital of the province of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and the South Atlantic Islands. owora was sent to the Ushuaia Naval Base in 1968 , forming the Grouping of Fast Boats together with the ARA Alakush (P-82). Both ships made up a batch of ten Higgins- type torpedo boats that the Argentine Navy had purchased in 1948 as a surplus from World War II from the United States . The boats, which had served in the theater of operations in the Pacific Ocean, arrived in Argentina from New Orleans unarmed aboard merchant ships and were assigned to the Río Santiago Naval Base.. The Towora was placed under the command of Lieutenant Anatol Tarapow to patrol the Beagle Channel and its surroundings.  Before his transfer, during his activity as a Río de la Plata squadron , he operated in the waters of San Clemente del Tuyú for routine operations and training and in Mar del Plata for torpedo launches and artillery tests. They also crossed the Paraná and Uruguay rivers.  In 1969 the Towora was modified to improve navigation in southern waters, with an aluminum float and offensive weapons. It was also provided with a heating candle system in the engine room that had to maintain a minimum temperature of 10ºC and a maximum of 15ºC, so as not to have problems with the engines.  Both the Towora and the Alakush became the first combat units with a permanent station in Tierra del Fuego, after the incursion into Ushuaia Bay (in the Argentine waters of the Beagle Channel) by the Chilean torpedo boat Quidora (PTF-82) in 1968. At the Ushuaia naval base, both boats received their definitive names. 

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