USS Phoenix (CL-46)
1938 Brooklyn-class light cruiser of the US Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about USS Phoenix (CL-46)?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
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.[1] 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.
USS Phoenix (1944) | |
History | |
---|---|
United States | |
Name | Phoenix |
Namesake | City of Phoenix, Arizona |
Ordered | 13 February 1929 |
Awarded | 22 August 1934 |
Builder | New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey |
Cost | $11,975,000 (contract price) |
Laid down | 15 April 1935 |
Launched | 12 March 1938 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Dorothea Kays Moonan |
Commissioned | 3 October 1938 |
Decommissioned | 3 July 1946 |
Stricken | 27 January 1951 |
Identification |
|
Honors and awards | 11 × battle stars |
Fate | Sold to Argentina, 9 April 1951, as ARA General Belgrano, [1] Torpedoed and sunk on 2 May 1982, during the Falklands War |
General characteristics (as built)[2] | |
Class and type | Brooklyn-class cruiser |
Displacement |
|
Length | |
Beam | 61 ft 7 in (18.77 m) |
Draft |
|
Installed power |
|
Propulsion |
|
Speed | 32.5 kn (37.4 mph; 60.2 km/h) |
Complement | 868 officers and enlisted |
Armament |
|
Armor |
|
Aircraft carried | 4 × SOC Seagull floatplanes |
Aviation facilities | 2 × stern catapults |
General characteristics (1945)[3][4] | |
Armament |
|
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. Her name was in honor of the capital city of the state of Arizona.[1]