ARA Nueve de Julio (C-5)
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Name: | Nueve de Julio |
Namesake: | 9 July 1816, the date of Argentine Independence |
Acquired: | 11 January 1951 |
Status: | Scrapped in 1979 |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Brooklyn-class cruiser |
Displacement: | 9,700 tons |
Length: | 608 ft 4 in (185.42 m) |
Beam: | 61 ft 9 in (18.82 m) |
Draft: | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
Speed: | 33.5 knots (62.0 km/h) |
Complement: | 868 officers and men |
Armament: |
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The ARA Nueve de Julio was an Argentine Navy cruiser, purchased from the United States Navy on 11 January 1951. Nueve de Julio was decommissioned in 1978 and sent to Japan to be scrapped.
Early career
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ARA Nueve de Julio (C-5) was built as the USS Boise (CL-47) in 1936 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia. The Boise was a Brooklyn-class light cruiser, named for the city of Boise, the capital of Idaho. She served in World War II in the Pacific theater before decommissioning on 11 July 1946.
Argentine career
Boise was sold to the Argentine Navy on 11 January 1951. During her service in the Argentine Navy, she participated in the 1955 Revolución Libertadora, when she shelled oil depots and military facilities in the city of Mar del Plata, along with a flotilla of destroyers, on 19 September 1955. She was accidentally rammed by her sister General Belgrano (former USS Phoenix) on exercises in 1956, which resulted in damage to both cruisers.[1] Nueve de Julio was decommissioned in 1979. Her sister ship, the General Belgrano remained in service until her sinking during the Falklands War with Britain by the British submarine HMS Conqueror.
Notes
- ↑ Historia de los Cruceros Argentinos (Spanish)
See also
External links
- Articles with Spanish-language external links
- Articles with dead external links from February 2012
- Pages with broken file links
- Brooklyn-class cruisers of the Argentine Navy
- Ships built in Newport News, Virginia
- 1936 ships
- Cold War cruisers of Argentina
- Maritime incidents in 1955
- Maritime incidents in 1956
- Maritime incidents in Argentina