ARA General Belgrano
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ARA General Belgrano

Cruiser

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 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.

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Foto: Wikimedia Commons — Unknown authorUnknown author, Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación Argentina (proste licence / javna domena)