ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (V-2)

For other ships with the same name, see ARA Veinticinco de Mayo, HNLMS Karel Doorman, and HMS Venerable.

Veinticinco de Mayo
History
United Kingdom
NameVenerable
Ordered7 August 1942
BuilderCammell Laird
Yard number1126
Laid down3 December 1942
Launched30 December 1943
Commissioned27 November 1944
DecommissionedApril 1947
IdentificationPennant number: R63
FateSold to the Netherlands, 1 April 1948
Netherlands
NameKarel Doorman
NamesakeKarel Doorman
Acquired1 April 1948
Commissioned28 May 1948
Decommissioned29 April 1968
Refit
  • 1955–1958
  • 1965–1966
IdentificationPennant number: R81
FateSold to Argentina, 15 October 1968
Argentina
NameVeinticinco de Mayo
Namesake25 May, date of the May Revolution
Acquired15 October 1968
Commissioned12 March 1969
Decommissioned1997
Out of serviceInoperable by 1990
Refit1969
HomeportPuerto Belgrano
FateProvided spare parts for Brazilian aircraft carrier Minas Gerais and remainder was scrapped in Alang, India in 2000
General characteristics
Class and typeColossus-class aircraft carrier
Displacement19,900 tons
Length192 m (629 ft 11 in)
Beam24.4 m (80 ft 1 in)
Draught7.5 m (24 ft 7 in)
Propulsion
  • 4 boilers with steam turbines
  • 2 shafts
  • 40,000 shp (30,000 kW)
Speed24 knots (44 km/h)
Complement1,300
Armament12 × 40 mm AA guns
Aircraft carried21

ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (V-2) was an aircraft carrier in the Argentine Navy from 1969 to 1997. The English translation of the name is Twenty-fifth of May, which is the date of Argentina's May Revolution in 1810.

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 and in the first weeks of the Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas), where her aircraft were deployed against the Royal Navy task force, but spent the bulk of the war in port.[1]

  1. ^ "The Falkland Islands – A history of the 1982 conflict". RAF. Archived from the original on 21 September 2008.