page_title: USS Phoenix (CL-46)
section_title: Argentine service
hierarchical_section_title: USS Phoenix (CL-46) / Argentine service
caption_attribution_description: English: PUERTO BELGRANO, Argentina (May 2, 2007) – USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52) Commanding Officer, Cmdr. Victor Cooper, and fellow Pearl Harbor officers pay homage to a memorial dedicated to the Argentinean ship ARA General Belgrano during a 25th anniversary remembrance service. The ARA General Belgrano (ex USS Phoenix (CL-46)) sank along with 323 members of her crew. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Damien Horvath (RELEASED)
context_page_description: 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 ultimately renamed General Belgrano in 1956. General Belgrano was sunk during the Falklands War in 1982 by the British nuclear-powered submarine HMS Conqueror, the only ship to have been sunk in combat by a nuclear-powered submarine during wartime.
  She was laid down on 15 April 1935 by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey; launched on 13 March 1938; sponsored by Mrs. Dorothea Kays Moonan; and commissioned at Philadelphia Navy Yard on 3 October 1938, Captain John W. Rankin in command. Her name was in honor of the capital city of the state of Arizona.
context_section_description: She was decommissioned on 3 July 1946, and remained at Philadelphia until sold to Argentina on 9 April 1951. She was commissioned in the Argentine Navy as Diecisiete de Octubre (C-4) on 17 October 1951, renamed ARA General Belgrano in 1956, and upgraded in 1967–68 with new Dutch radars and British Sea Cat anti-aircraft missiles. Belgrano was sunk during the Falklands War on 2 May 1982 by the British attack submarine HMS Conqueror, with the loss of 323 lives.
caption: USS Pearl Harbor Commanding Officer and fellow officers pay homage to a memorial dedicated to the Argentinean ship ARA General Belgrano during a 25th anniversary remembrance service
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