ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (C-2)
Service
- as Veinticinco de Mayo11 July 1931 — 19602,193 days of the war
- Name
- ARA Veinticinco de Mayo
- Pennant / hull number
- C-2
- Namesake
- May Revolution
- Builder
- Cantiere navale fratelli Orlando, Livorno
- Laid down
- 29 November 1927
- Launched
- 11 August 1929
- Commissioned
- 11 July 1931
- Fate
- Scrapped 1960 (1960)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, full load
- 6,693 long tons (6,800 t)
- Length
- 170.78 m (560.3 ft)
- Beam
- 17.83 m (58.5 ft)
- Draught
- 4.66 m (15.3 ft)
- Speed
- 32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
- Range
- 8,000 nmi (14,816 km)
- Complement
- 600
- Main gun
- 190 mm (7.5 in)
ARA Veinticinco de Mayo was a Veinticinco de Mayo-class cruiser built for the Argentine Navy. She carried the pennant number C-2. The ship was named after May Revolution. Cantiere navale fratelli Orlando, Livorno laid her keel on 29 November 1927. Launched on 11 August 1929, she entered service on 11 July 1931.
Two ships of the class were built.
Displacement was 6,693 long tons. She measured 170.8 m (560 ft) long with a beam of 17.8 m (58 ft). Her designed speed was 32 knots, and she carried a complement of 600.
Her main battery was six 190 mm (7.5 in) guns. She carried two aircraft. Her machinery developed 85,000 hp.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1960.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Parsons turbine, 2 screws
- Power
- 85000 hp
- Armament
- 6 × 190 mm (7.5 inch)/52 caliber guns (3 × 2)
- 12 × 102 mm (4 inch)/45 caliber DP guns (6 × 2)
- 6 × Vickers-Terni 40/39 mm AA guns
- 6 × 533 mm (21-inch) torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Deck: 1 in
- Sides: 2.8 in
- Conning tower: 2.3 in
- Turrets: 2 in
- Aircraft
- 2 × Grumman J2F Duck
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (C-2) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — http://www.histarmar.com.ar/ — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons