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USS Saratoga (CV-3) was a Lexington-class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy during the 1920s. Originally designed as a battlecruiser , she was converted into one of the Navy's first aircraft carriers during construction to comply with the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.
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 .
The Lexington-class aircraft carriers were a pair of aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy (USN) during the 1920s, the USS Lexington (CV-2) and USS Saratoga (CV-3). The ships were built on hulls originally laid down as battlecruisers after World War I , but under the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, all U.S. battleship and ...
English: The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CVA-60) with her crew manning the rail on the flight deck, as she arrives in Barcelona, Spain, 12 February 1965. Saratoga, with assigned Attack Carrier Air Wing 3 (CVW-3), was deployed to the Mediterranean Sea from 28 November 1964 to 12 July 1965.
On 1 July 1938 the Saratoga Air Group was formally established as a unit. With the rapid fleet buildup of World War II , the Navy ceased naming its carrier air groups with the carrier's name and initially numbered them with the carrier's hull number, and on 25 September 1943 Saratoga Air Group was redesignated Carrier Air Group 3 (CVG-3) .
USS Saratoga may refer to the following United States Navy warships: USS Saratoga (1780), an 18-gun sloop-of-war launched in 1780; lost at sea the following year; USS Saratoga (1814), a 26-gun corvette built on Lake Champlain for service in the War of 1812; USS Saratoga (1842), a 22-gun sloop-of-war; commissioned 1843; served until 1888
Even longer was the assignment to USS Saratoga, from 1965 to 1994, since 1984 as part of CVW-17. VF-103 was aboard Saratoga for 15 deployments to the Mediterranean Sea, plus a single one aboard Forrestal in 1982. [4] VF-103 flew the F-4B until transitioning to the F-4J in 1968. In 1981, the squadron was reequipped with the F-4S.
USS Forrestal (left) and USS Saratoga (right) berthed at the Naval Station, Newport, Rhode Island.Forrestal was sold for $0.01 to be scrapped in February, 2014; Naval Sea Systems Command announced in May, 2014 that Saratoga also would be sold for scrap for $0.01.