Trivia: What US-built warship was attacked by the Japanese but ultimately sunk by the British? [View all]

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Answer: The USS Phoenix/ARA General Belgrano. Today is the 30th anniversary of its sinking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_General_Belgrano

The ARA General Belgrano was an Argentine Navy light cruiser in service from 1951 until 1982. Formerly the USS Phoenix (CL-46), she saw action in the Pacific theater of World War II before being sold to Argentina. After almost 31 years of service, she was sunk during the Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas) by the Royal Navy submarine HMS Conqueror with the loss of 323 lives. Losses from the Belgrano totalled just over half of Argentine deaths in the Falklands War.

She is the only ship ever to have been sunk in anger by a nuclear-powered submarine and the second sunk in action by any type of submarine since World War II, the first being the Indian frigate INS Khukri by the Pakistani Hangor during the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War.
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USS Phoenix passing the burning hulks of Battleship Row at Pearl Harbor during the attack on 12/7/1941


ARA General Belgrano (ex-USS Phoenix) sinking after being torpedoed by HMS Conquerer during the Falklands Islands conflict on May 2, 1982.