Compania Argentina de Navegacion Dodero (Dodero Line) commenced Buenos Aires to London passenger voyages in 1949 with the newly built S.S. Presidente Peron and followed this in 1950 with the sister ships S.S. Eva Peron and the S.S. 17 De Octubre.   The same year, passenger services between Buenos Aires, Vigo, Amsterdam and Hamburg commenced. A service between B.A., Rio de Janeiro, Las Palmas, Lisbon, Barcelona, Marseilles, Naples and Genoa with southbound calls at Montevideo soon followed.

Service Years (1949-1973):

The Presidente Peron was built in 1949 by Vickers Armstrong Ltd, Barrow in Furness for Dodero Line. She embodied the latest technical developments for safety, comfort, efficiency and speed and was specially designed for the new Argentine service between South America and Europe. She was a handsome ship and carrying only 74 first class passengers in luxurious accommodations and with magnificent air conditioned public rooms exuded the air and luxury of private yacht travel. She was named after President Juan Peron and the Dodero Line ships were frequented by his elite. In 1955 the dictatorship of Juan Peron was overthrown.

After the fall of the Peron Government, the Dodero Line ceased operations and management of the fleet passed to Flota Argentina de Navegaceon de Ultramar (FANU). The Presidente Peron was renamed as Argentina. In 1962 FANU and the Flota Mercante del Estado merged to form Empresa Lineas Maritimas Argentinas (ELMA) who took over the passenger services. The Genoa route was discontinued in 1969 and passenger services to London in 1967 and the ships converted to cargo carriers. A service to New York also operated between 1950 and 1962. The Hamburg route was ended in 1972. The former Presidente Peron stopped carrying passengers in 1966 and was converted into a cargo ship. In 1969 she was laid up in Rosario. Then in 1973 she was scrapped in Campana.