ARA Nueve de Julio
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 ARA Nueve de Julio (C-5) |
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| Career |  |
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| Acquired: | 11 January 1951 |
| Status: | Scrapped in 1978 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Brooklyn-class cruiser |
| Displacement: | 9,700 tons |
| Length: | 608 feet 4 inches (185.4 m) |
| Beam: | 61 feet 9 inches (18.8 m) |
| Draft: | 24 feet (7.3 m) |
| Speed: | 33.5 knots (62.0 km/h) |
| Complement: | 868 officers and men |
| Armament: | 15 × 6 in (152 mm) 8 × 5 in (127 mm) guns |
The ARA Nueve de Julio was an Argentine Navy cruiser, purchased from the United States Navy on January 11, 1951. The Nueve de Julio was decommissioned in 1978 and sent to Japan to be scrapped.
[edit] General History
The ARA Nueve de Julio (C-5) was built as the USS Boise (CL-47) in 1936 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia. The Boise was a Brooklyn-class light cruiser, named for the city of Boise, the capital of Idaho. She served in WWII in the Pacific theater before decommissioning on July 11, 1946. She was later sold to the Argentine Navy on January 11, 1951. During her service in the Argentine Navy, she participated in the Revolución Libertadora.
