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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 .
Scrapped in 2015 [52] [53] [54] CV-60 Saratoga: Forrestal: 14 April 1956 20 August 1994 38 years, 128 days Scrapped in 2019 [55] CV-61 Ranger: Forrestal: 10 August 1957 10 July 1993 35 years, 334 days Scrapped in 2017 [56] CV-62 Independence: Forrestal: 10 January 1959 30 September 1998 39 years, 263 days Scrapped in 2019 [57] CV-63 Kitty Hawk
An associated press report says this: "An engine compartment of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga flooded Sunday while the vessel was at a dock In Athens, Greece, the Navy reported today. A Navy spokesman at the Saratoga's home base said the ship was in no danger of sinking and there was no personal injury." ("Engine Area Floods On Carrier ...
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The station was home of the decommissioned USS Saratoga (CV-60) after the departure [when?] of the USS Forrestal (CV-59) under tow for the inactive ship storage facility in Philadelphia. On May 8, 2014, Naval Sea Systems Command announced that ESCO Marine, Brownsville, Texas, would scrap Saratoga for one cent. [11]
USS Ranger (CV-61) S. USS Saratoga (CV-60) This page was last edited on 4 April 2013, at 03:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The US Navy recently acknowledged it found jet fuel in the drinking water aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. Veteran sailors and Marines told Insider that contaminated water has been ...
20 August – USS Saratoga decommissioned. [27] 1995. USS John C. Stennis (left) and HMS Illustrious (right) 1 August – Novorossiysk and Minsk sold for scrap, Minsk not scrapped. [110] 9 September – USS Oriskany sold for scrap, not scrapped. [27] 10 October – HMS Ocean launched. 9 December – USS John C. Stennis commissioned. [90] 1996