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USS Ranger (CV-61)

USS Ranger (CV-61) departing from San Diego, 1987
USS Ranger (CV-61), February 1987
History
United States
Name: USS Ranger
Namesake: One who wanders; a military scout
Ordered: 1 February 1954
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Newport News, Virginia
Cost:
  • $182 million (1954)
  • ($1.62 billion today)
Laid down: 2 August 1954
Launched: 29 September 1956
Sponsored by: Mrs. Arthur W. Radford
Acquired: 1 August 1957
Commissioned: 10 August 1957
Decommissioned: 10 July 1993
Reclassified: CV-61
Struck: 8 March 2004
Fate: Sold for scrap 22 December 2014
Status: At International Shipbreaking Ltd. Brownsville, TX
General characteristics
Class and type: Forrestal-class aircraft carrier
Displacement:
  • 56,300 long tons (57,200 t) light
  • 81,101 long tons (82,402 t) full load
Length: 1,046 ft (319 m)
Beam:
  • 130 ft (40 m) waterline
  • 249 ft 6 in (76.05 m) extreme
Draft: 37 ft (11 m)
Propulsion:
  • 4 geared turbines, 4 shafts, 280,000 shaft horsepower (210 MW)
  • 8 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Speed: 34 knots (63 km/h)
Complement: 3,826 officers and men.
Sensors and
processing systems:
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
Mark 36 SRBOC
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 70–90

Coordinates: 47°33′09″N 122°39′09″W / 47.5525°N 122.6524°W / 47.5525; -122.6524 (USS Ranger (CV-61))

The seventh USS Ranger (CV/CVA-61) was one of four Forrestal-class supercarriers built for the United States Navy in the 1950s. Although all four ships of the class were completed with angled decks, Ranger had the distinction of being the first US carrier built from the beginning as an angled-deck ship.

Commissioned in 1957, she served extensively in the Pacific, especially the Vietnam War, for which she earned 13 battle stars. Near the end of her career, she also served in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf.

Ranger appeared on television in The Six Million Dollar Man and Baa Baa Black Sheep, and in the films Top Gun, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (standing in for the carrier Enterprise), and Flight of the Intruder.

Ranger was decommissioned in 1993, and was stored at Bremerton, Washington until March 2015. She is currently being scrapped in Brownsville.


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