USS Phoenix (CL-46)

History
USS Phoenix (CL-46), port bow view while underway in 1944, location unknown. She is in camouflage pattern measure 32/5D.
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:	25 April 1935
Launched:	19 March 1938
Sponsored by:	Mrs. Dorothea Kays Moonan
Commissioned:	3 October 1938
Decommissioned:	3 July 1946
Struck:	27 January 1951
Identification:	Hull symbol:CL-46 Code letters:NAJJ
Honors and awards:	11 × battle stars
Fate:	Sold to Argentina, 9 April 1951,
ARA General Belgrano, ex-USS Phoenix (CL-46), underway.
History
Argentina
Name:	17 de Octubre (1951-1956) General Belgrano (1956-1982)
Namesake:	Loyalty Day Manuel Belgrano
Acquired:	9 April 1951
Commissioned:	17 October 1951
Decommissioned:	10 May 1982
Identification:	Hull symbol:C-4
Fate:	Sunk in battle 2 May 1982 by HMS Conqueror during the Falklands War
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type:	Brooklyn-class cruiser
Displacement:	10,000 long tons (10,000 t) (estimated as design) 9,767 long tons (9,924 t) (standard) 12,207 long tons (12,403 t) (max)
Length:	600 ft (180 m) oa 608 ft 4 in (185.42 m) lwl
Beam:	61 ft 7 in (18.77 m)
Draft:	19 ft 9 in (6.02 m) (mean) 24 ft (7.3 m) (max)
Installed power:	8 × Steam boilers 100,000 shp (75,000 kW)
Propulsion:	4 × geared turbines 4 × screws
Speed:	32.5 kn (37.4 mph; 60.2 km/h)
Complement:	868 officers and enlisted
Armament:	15 × 6 in (150 mm)/47 caliber guns (5x3) 8 × 5 in (130 mm)/25 caliber anti-aircraft guns (8×1) 8 × caliber 0.50 in (13 mm) machine guns
Armor:	Belt: 3 ¹⁄₄–5 in (83–127 mm) Deck: 2 in (51 mm) Barbettes: 6 in (150 mm) Turrets: 1 ¹⁄₄–6 in (32–152 mm) Conning Tower: 2 ¹⁄₄–5 in (57–127 mm)
Aircraft carried:	4 × SOC Seagull floatplanes
Aviation facilities:	2 × stern catapults
General characteristics (1945)
Armament:	15 × 6 in (150 mm)/47 caliber guns (5x3) 8 × 5 in (130 mm)/25 caliber anti-aircraft guns (8×1) 4 × quad 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors anti-aircraft guns 2 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors anti-aircraft guns 18 × single 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons

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.

Shakedown took her to Port of Spain, Trinidad. She continued to Santos, Brazil, then to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Montevideo, Uruguay, and finally to San Juan, Puerto Rico. The new cruiser returned to Philadelphia in January 1939. In March 1939 she transited the Panama Canal for new home port of San Pedro, California. From June 1939 until April 1940, she toured the west coast with port of call in Santa Cruz and San Francisco, California, Portland, Oregon, and points in between. During March 1940 she was en route to Lahaina Roads, Maui and then on to new home port of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

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