ARA Nueve de Julio (C-5)
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History | |
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Argentina | |
Name | Nueve de Julio |
Namesake | 9 July 1816, the date of Argentine Independence |
Acquired | 11 January 1951 |
Fate | Scrapped in 1983 |
General characteristics | |
Class and 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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ARA Nueve de Julio (C-5) 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
ARA Nueve de Julio (C-5) was built as
Argentine career
Boise was sold to the
From March 1976 and until at least December of that year she was set up as a clandestine detention center. A number of cabins were converted into cells in which disappeared persons were temporarily held for periods ranging from days to months, while torture sessions took place at the headquarters of the Naval Establishments Police.[2] At least one baby was born in captivity inside the ship, its fate remaining a mystery.[3]
Nueve de Julio was struck on 31 October 1977 and sold on 28 June 1981, with the manifesto stating that she was to be moored at Brownsville, Texas and converted into a museum ship. Instead, she was towed to Japan and scrapped for metal there in 1983. General Belgrano remained in service until her sinking during the Falklands War by the British submarine HMS Conqueror.
See also
Citations
- ^ Historia de los Cruceros Argentinos (in Spanish)
- ^ a b "El juicio "Armada", según los fiscales, muestra la operatoria de la represión ilegal en la región" (in Spanish). Télam. 12 August 2015. Archived from the original on 8 March 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ^ a b "Nacido en el 9 de Julio" (in Spanish). 4 February 2015.
External links
- ARA history, official website.(in Spanish)
- Ships of the ARA(in Spanish)
- History of the "ARA Nueve de Julio (C-5)(in Spanish)
- history.navy.mil: Official Photos of USS Boise
- navsource.org: USS Boise