USS Phoenix, a 9575-ton Brooklyn class light cruiser, was built at Camden, New Jersey. She was moored there when the Japanese attacked on 7 December but was among the ships that left the harbor during the attack to undertake a search for the enemy task force. Recommissioned in October 1951 with the new name 17 de Octubre, and General Belgrano after 1956, she served Argentina for more than three decades. On 2 May 1982, while steaming at sea during the war with Great Britain over the Falkland Islands, General Belgrano was torpedoed and sunk by the Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarine Conqueror.
USS Phoenix, a 9575-ton Brooklyn class light cruiser, was built at Camden, New Jersey. She was moored there when the Japanese attacked on 7 December but was among the ships that left the harbor during the attack to undertake a search for the enemy task force.
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