ARA Veinticinco de Mayo

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ARA Veinticinco de Mayo or Veinticinco de Mayo may refer to one the following vessels of the Argentine Navy:

  • , a brigantine launched in 1810, which served during the Independence War in the first Argentine naval squadron, and in the Civil War that followed
  • , a schooner which served as a corsair during the Independence War
  • , a frigate which served during the Cisplatine War
  • , a frigate lost in a shipwreck in 1828
  • , a frigate in service from 1841 to 1860
  • , a steam-powered ship which was captured by Paraguay in 1865 causing the Argentine intervention in the Paraguayan War
  • ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (1891), a cruiser in service from 1891 to 1916
  • ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (C-2), a cruiser in service from 1931 to 1960
  • ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (V-2), an aircraft carrier in service 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.

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