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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 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, where her aircraft were deployed against the Royal Navy task force, but spent the bulk of the war in port.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Falkland Islands - A history of the 1982 conflict )〕 ==History== The ship was built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead, England during the Second World War for the Royal Navy.〔Ireland, p. 147〕 As a ''Colossus''-class aircraft carrier, she was named and saw service in the British Pacific Fleet. ''Venerable'' only served three years in the Royal Navy before being sold to the Netherlands as HNLMS ''Karel Doorman''. After a boiler room fire, the carrier was rebuilt, and sold to Argentina.〔 The Argentines already operated a carrier, ARA ''Independencia'', also a former Royal Navy ''Colossus''-class. After ''Independencia'' was decommissioned in 1970, ''Veinticinco de Mayo'' was the sole remaining carrier in the Argentine fleet. She could carry up to 24 aircraft. The air group started with F9F Panthers and F9F Cougars jets and later these were replaced with A-4Q Skyhawks supported by S-2 Tracker anti-submarine warfare aircraft and Sikorsky Sea King helicopters. In September 1969, during the voyage of the recently bought ''Veinticinco de Mayo'' from the Netherlands, Hawker Siddeley demonstrated their Harrier GR.1 on board the carrier for a possible sale to the Argentine Navy. During the 1970s the ship was refitted and updated several times, though in each case the duration of each repair period was never more than 3–5 months, allowing her to be available to deploy. Her last pre-Falklands refit occurred during 1981, when she received an update to her radar, arresting gear, steam catapult and (most noticeably) the forward edge of the port side angled deck was filled out via an enlarged sponson. These improvements would theoretically enable her to operate the Super Etendard strike aircraft purchased from France, but it was discovered during testing that the catapult had difficulties launching the aircraft type. Therefore, her strike airwing was limited to the A-4Q Skyhawks. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (V-2)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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