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Originally Posted by Eric

As far as I remember, the Belgrano was a little long in the tooth wasn't she ... WWll vintage ... the phrase "sitting duck" comes to mind

When a six inch shell comes whizzing at you it matters not that it was fired from an old gun. She was perfectly capable of doing a lot of damage to our fleet had she got closer. As it is the point became academic because we got clobbered with Exocet missiles supplied by our friends on the other side of the channel – the French.

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