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  ARA Veinticinco de Mayo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The ARA Veinticinco de Mayo was an aircraft carrier in the Armada Republica Argentina from 1969 to 1999.
After Independencia was decommised in 1970, the Veinticinco de Mayo was the sole remaining carrier in the Argentine fleet and could carry up to 24 aircraft, mainly Skyhawks and Dassault Super Etendard jets.
During the Falklands War, the Veinticinco de Mayo was deployed in a task force north of the Falkland Islands, with the ARA General Belgrano to the south.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/ARA-Veinticinco-de-Mayo.htm   (353 words)

  
 Light aircraft carrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Late in the war, two Baltimore-class heavy cruisers were converted to Saipan-class light carriers, they were completed after the war's end and after very brief lives as carriers, ended prematurely by the rapid advances in aircraft technology brought on in the 1950s, were converted to command and communication ships.
Some modern references call the French Charles de Gaulle a "light carrier," though at 40,000 tons and nuclear powered she dwarfs the vast majority of the world's aircraft carriers with the exception of the American supercarriers.
ARA Vienticino de Mayo - one ship (ex-Colossus-class)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Light_aircraft_carrier   (287 words)

  
 Majestic class aircraft carrier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Leviathan - She was launched in 1945, though never completed.
Her boilers were removed for the Argentinean carrier ARA Vienticino de Mayo, a Colossus-class carrier.
Magnificent - Once completed, she was loaned to the Royal Canadian Navy.
uncover.us /en/wikipedia/m/ma/majestic_class_aircraft_carrier.html   (223 words)

  
 Colossus class aircraft carrier
Venerable - Became Dutch vessel HNLMS Karel Doorman II in 1948, then sold to Argentina as ARA Vienticino de Mayo.
Returned to UK in 1956 and sold to Argentina in 19958 as ARA Independencia.
She was broken up sometime in the 1970s.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/colossus_class_aircraft_carrier   (233 words)

  
 Light aircraft carrier -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The precise definition of the type varies by country, typically having a capacity of 1/2 to 2/3 of the aircraft of a full-sized carrier.
(additional info and facts about ARA Independencia) ARA Independencia - one ship (ex- (additional info and facts about Colossus-class) Colossus-class)
ARA Vienticino de Mayo - one ship (ex- (additional info and facts about Colossus-class) Colossus-class)
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/light_aircraft_carrier.htm   (371 words)

  
 airconditioner.ca - ARA Vienticino de Mayo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Other Web Sites about ARA Vienticino de Mayo
Luis Bu~nuel: El Ojo de la Libertad: [Exposicion] Febrero-Mayo 2000
Actor Y T‚cnica De La Representacion Del Teatro Cl sico (Madrid, 17-19 De Mayo De 1988)
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