ARA Veinticinco (V-2)
Colossus light class aircraft carrier of the Argentina Navy
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History and current status |
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The ship previously served in the Royal Navy as HMS Venerable and the Royal Netherlands Navy as HNLMS Karel Doorman.
She was deployed south during the Beagle Crisis in 1978. |
During the Falklands War the ARA Veinticinco de Mayo was deployed in a task force north of the Falkland Islands, with the ARA General Belgrano to the south.
The British had assigned HMS Spartan, a nuclear-powered submarine, to track down the Veinticinco de Mayo and sink her if necessary. Rear Admiral Sandy Woodward, commanding the British Task Force from HMS Hermes stated in his book "One Hundred Days", that had Spartan located the carrier, he would have "Recommended in the strongest possible terms to the Commander-in-Chief Admiral Sir John Fieldhouse that we take them both out this night".
After hostilities broke out on 1 May 1982, the Argentine carrier attempted to launch a wave of A-4Q Skyhawk jets against the Royal Navy Task Force after her S-2 Trackers detected the British fleet.
However what would have been the only battle between aircraft carriers since World War II did not take place, as poor winds prevented the heavily loaded jets from being launched.
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_Veinticinco_de_Mayo |
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| Aircraft carried: 21? |
A-4Q Skyhawk's
Photo from e U.S. federal government
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F9F Panthers
F9F Cougars
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| Replaced by: |
A-4Q Skyhawk's
S-2 Tracker anti-submarine warfare
Sikorsky Sea King helicopters.
Dassault Super Étendard
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