For another ship of the same name, see ARA General Belgrano (1896). For this ship's service in the United States Navy, see USS Phoenix (CL-46).
ARA General Belgrano
ARA General Belgrano underway
History
United States
Name
USS Phoenix (CL-46)
Acquired
3 October 1938
Fate
Decommissioned 3 July 1946;
Stricken 27 January 1951
History
Argentina
Name
17 de Octubre
Namesake
17 October 1945, the day popular demonstrations forced the release of Juan Perón
Acquired
9 April 1951
Renamed
ARA General Belgrano (C-4)
Namesake
Manuel Belgrano
Fate
Torpedoed and sunk on 2 May 1982
Badge
General characteristics
Class and type
Brooklyn-class light cruiser
Displacement
9,575 tons (empty) 12,242 (full load)
Length
608.3 ft (185.4 m)
Beam
61.8 ft (18.8 m)
Draft
19.5 ft (5.9 m)
Speed
32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph)
Complement
1,138 officers and men
Armament
15 × 6 in (150 mm)
8 × 5"/25 caliber gun (127 mm) AA
40 mm and 20 mm anti-aircraft guns
2 British Sea Cat missile AA systems (added 1968)
Armor
Main belt: 5.5 in (140 mm)
Deck: 2 in (50 mm)
Barbettes: 6 in (152 mm)
Turret roofs: 2 in (50 mm)
Turret sides: 6.5 in (170 mm)
Conning tower: 5 in (127 mm)
Aircraft carried
2 helicopters (One Aérospatiale Alouette III was on board when sunk)
ARAGeneral Belgrano (C-4) was an Argentine Navy light cruiser in service from 1951 until 1982. Originally commissioned by the U.S. Navy as USS Phoenix, she saw action in the Pacific theatre of World War II before being sold to Argentina. The vessel was the second to have been named after the Argentine founding father Manuel Belgrano (1770–1820). The first vessel was a 7,069-ton armoured cruiser completed in 1896.
She was sunk on 2 May 1982 during the Falklands War by the Royal Navy submarine Conqueror with the loss of 323 lives. Losses from General Belgrano totalled just under half of Argentine military deaths in the war.
She is the only ship to have been sunk during military operations by a nuclear-powered submarine[1] and the second sunk in action by any type of submarine since World War II (the first being the Indian frigate INS Khukri, which was sunk by the Pakistani submarine PNS Hangor during the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War).
^Kemp (1999), p. 68.
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