USS Ranger (CV-61)
USS Ranger (CV-61), February 1987
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| Name: | USS Ranger |
| Namesake: | One who wanders; a military scout |
| Ordered: | 1 February 1954 |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Newport News, Virginia |
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| 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 |
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| Class and type: | Forrestal-class aircraft carrier |
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| Length: | 1,046 ft (319 m) |
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| Draft: | 37 ft (11 m) |
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| Speed: | 34 knots (63 km/h) |
| Complement: | 3,826 officers and men. |
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Mark 36 SRBOC |
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| Aircraft carried: | 70–90 |
Coordinates: 47°33′09″N 122°39′09″W / 47.5525°N 122.6524°W
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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