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ARA General 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 Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano was sunk on May 2, 1982, by the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror during the Falklands War.The sinking of the General Belgrano led to the death of 323 Argentine sailors, [1] [2] almost half of all Argentine casualties during the conflict, [3] [4] and sparked controversy, as the attack occurred outside the exclusion zone established by the ...
USS Phoenix (CL-46), was a light cruiser of the Brooklyn-class cruiser family. She was the third Phoenix of the United States Navy.After World War II the ship was transferred to Argentina in 1951 and was named General Belgrano in 1956. [1]
On 2 May Conqueror became the first nuclear-powered submarine to sink an enemy surface ship using torpedoes, launching three Mark 8 torpedoes at General Belgrano and the destroyers, [note 2] two of which struck the ship and exploded. Twenty minutes later, the ship was sinking rapidly and was abandoned by her crew.
Ship name Pennant number Picture Launched Service entry Decommissioned Other names Fate ARA Garibaldi: none 1895 1896 1934 Sold for scrap 1937 ARA San Martín: none 1895 1898 1935 Scrapped 1947 ARA General Belgrano: none 1897 1898 1933 To coast guard 1933, stricken 1947, sold for scrap 1953 ARA Pueyrredón: none 1897 1898 1954 Sold for scrap 1957
ARA General Belgrano was a Giuseppe Garibaldi-class armoured cruiser of the Argentine Navy. The ship was built in Italy, along with three sister ships also for Argentina (Garibaldi, Pueyrredón and San Martín). The vessel was the first to have been named after the Argentine founding father Manuel Belgrano (1770–1820). The ship was laid down ...
The sinking was controversial, in part because of a dispute as to whether the ship had been heading towards or away from the exclusion zone when it was hit. Gould believed it had been sailing away from the exclusion zone. It was made public in 2011 that General Belgrano had in fact been ordered to sail towards it. [4] [5]
Built as Louis XIV for the company Quesnel Frères, the ship was purchased by the newly founded Compagnie des Chargeurs Réunis, and renamed Belgrano while on keel. Launched on 24 April 1872, [2] she shuttled between La Plata and Le Havre, [1] carrying immigrants to Argentina.