USS Saratoga (CVA-60)
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USS Saratoga (CV-60) underway in July 1992.
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| Name: | USS Saratoga |
| Namesake: | Battles of Saratoga, USS Saratoga (CV-3) |
| Ordered: | 23 July 1952 |
| Builder: | New York Naval Shipyard |
| Cost: | $209.7 million |
| Laid down: | 16 December 1952 |
| Launched: | 8 October 1955 |
| Acquired: | 14 April 1956 |
| Commissioned: | 14 April 1956 |
| Decommissioned: | 20 August 1994 |
| Reclassified: | CV-60 |
| Struck: | 20 August 1994 |
| Fate: | as of April 2010 stricken, ESCO Marine hired for dismantling in May 2014 |
| Notes: | Radio Call Sign NJRS |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Forrestal-class aircraft carrier |
| Displacement: | 81,101 long tons (82,402 t) full, 61,235 long tons (62,218 t) light, 19,866 long tons (20,185 t) dead |
| Length: | 1,063 ft (324 m) |
| Beam: | 130 ft (40 m) waterline, 252 ft (77 m) extreme |
| Draft: | 37 ft (11 m) |
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| Speed: | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Complement: | 552 officers, 4988 men |
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Mark 36 SRBOC |
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| Aircraft carried: | 70–90 |
USS Saratoga (CV/CVA/CVB-60), was the second of four Forrestal-class supercarriers built for the United States Navy in the 1950s. Saratoga was the sixth U.S. Navy ship, and the second aircraft carrier, to be named for the Battles of Saratoga in the American Revolutionary War.
Commissioned in 1956, she spent most of her career in the Mediterranean, but also participated during the Vietnam War, receiving one battle star for her service. One of her last operational duties was to participate in Operation Desert Storm.
Saratoga was decommissioned in 1994, and had been stored at Naval Station Newport in Newport, Rhode Island. Multiple unsuccessful attempts were made to preserve her as a museum ship. The Navy is paying ESCO Marine of Brownsville, Texas, one cent to take the ship for dismantling and recycling. On 15 September 2014, ex-Saratoga arrived in Brownsville, Texas, to be scrapped.
She was ordered as a "Large Aircraft Carrier", hull classification symbol CVB-60, and her contract was awarded to the New York Naval Shipyard of Brooklyn, New York on 23 July 1952. She is the second of the four Forrestal-class carriers. She was reclassified as an "Attack Aircraft Carrier" (CVA-60) on 1 October 1952. Her keel was laid down on 16 December 1952. She was launched on 8 October 1955 sponsored by Mrs. Charles S. Thomas, and commissioned on 14 April 1956 with CAPT Robert Joseph Stroh in command. She was the first carrier in the US Navy to use high-pressure 1,200 psi (8,300 kPa) boilers.
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