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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Swoop on April 28, 2010, 04:31:34 PM

Title: Quite interesting.
Post by: Swoop on April 28, 2010, 04:31:34 PM

The Argentinian ship Belgrano is famous for being the only ship ever to be sunk by a nuclear submarine, what other claim to fame did this unlucky boat have?

(the clue is in the question).

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Post by: cobia38 on April 28, 2010, 04:47:38 PM

  used to be the uss pheonix till the twits sunk her,er i mean brits sorry.

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Post by: allaire on April 28, 2010, 04:53:15 PM

It's only the second boat sunk by a sub since WWII.

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Post by: Swoop on April 28, 2010, 09:27:44 PM

Keep guessing.

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Post by: wojo71 on April 28, 2010, 10:16:55 PM

                                                 It  survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ? :salute

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Post by: oakranger on April 28, 2010, 10:32:03 PM

It is the only Argentinian ship that was sunk by any sub?

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Post by: SuBWaYCH on April 28, 2010, 11:33:10 PM

It is the only WW2 ship to ever be sunk in combat since WW2 ended? (doubtful but worth a guess)

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Post by: vonKrimm on April 28, 2010, 11:40:48 PM

It was sunk using WWII contact torpedoes (Mk8s iirc).

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Post by: Megalodon on April 29, 2010, 12:04:39 AM

The "Nueve de Julio"

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Post by: Swoop on April 29, 2010, 06:12:53 AM

wojo is close enough.

When it was called the USS Phoenix it was known as the luckiest ship in the US Navy as it was the only vessel to be present at Pearl Harbour in December 1941 that didn't even get a scratch.

Turned out to be not so lucky for the Argentinians......

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Post by: gyrene81 on April 29, 2010, 10:49:49 AM

That's because they renamed it...everyone knows you don't mess around with luck and rename something that is lucky.

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Post by: xbrit on April 29, 2010, 12:48:57 PM

They were offered a glass bottomed boat to go out and review the fleet.