Let's see if this generates any input. This relatively easy? question is taken [WITH permission] from a trivia website quiz.
The light cruiser USS Phoenix (CL-49) was commissioned in 1938. What was her ultimate fate some 44 years later?
A. scrapped in Zurich Switzerland
B. shipped in pieces to Phoenix AZ; reassembled as a historic ship
C. destroyed in a kamikaze attack off Okinawa
D. torpedoed and sunk by a British submarine in 1982
The correct answer will be posted via SEPCOR (remember that one?) in about a week. If there's reasonable interest to this one, I'll provide another. And if you're a true trivia hound, let me know; I'll send you the website info (it's free!).
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Well done, Scott and john.
Phoenix was launched as a light cruiser (6' main battery guns) of the "Brooklyn" class. A survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack, she served throughout the war, earning 11 battle stars. Phoenix was decommissioned in 1946 and sold to Argentina in 1951. Renamed "General Belgrano," she was torpedoed and sunk by HMS Conqueror in May 1982 during the Falkland Island War. About 323 crew were killed in this attack; the remainder were rescued.
The battle for Okinawa took place in 1945, only six years after Phoenix was built. To "ship" a 10,000 ton ship to landlocked Phoenix would be virtually impossible and astronomically expensive. And of course, not a lot of shipbuilding OR ship scrapping is done in landlocked Switzerland.