USS Phoenix (CL-46)

Ordered:   
Laid down: 15 April 1935
Launched: 13 March 1938
Commissioned: 3 October 1938
Decommissioned: 3 July 1946
Fate: Sold to Argentina, 9 April 1951, sunk in 1982 by HMS Conqueror.
Struck:   
General characteristics
Displacement: 10,000 tons
Length: 608 ft 4 in (185 m)
Beam: 61 ft 9 in (18.9 m)
Draft: 19 ft 5 in (5.9 m)
Propulsion: 100,000 shp,
Geared Turbines,
4 screws
Speed: 33.6 knots (61 km/h)
Range:   
Complement: 868 officers and enlisted
Armament: 15 × 6 in (152 mm), 8 × 5 in (127 mm), 8 × 0.50 calibre guns
Aircraft: 4
Motto:   
USS Phoenix (CL-46), a Brooklyn-class light cruiser, was the 3rd Phoenix of the United States Navy. After World War II the ship was transferred to Argentina in 1951 and became known as the General Belgrano. General Belgrano was sunk during the Falklands War in 1982 by HMS Conqueror.