Argentine Service
She was decommissioned on 3 July 1946, and remained at Philadelphia until sold to Argentina on 9 April 1951. She was commissioned in the Argentine Navy as Diecisiete de Octubre (C-4) on 17 October 1951, renamed ARA General Belgrano in 1956, and sunk during the Falklands War on 2 May 1982 by the nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror.
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