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TCG Muavenet (DM-357) (previously USS Gwin, transferred in 1971) was a destroyer minelayer of the Turkish Navy crippled by two Sea Sparrow missiles fired from the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga during a NATO exercise in Saros Bay, Turkey in 1992, resulting in five deaths and 22 injured among its crew.
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 .
USS Detroit, USS Seattle (AOE-3), USS Savannah, USS Mount Baker and USNS Sirius were the fuel, ammunition and combat stores (food and supplies) replenishment ships supplying the entire battle group. Coral Sea and Saratoga had participated in the first two parts of the operation, and were joined by America in mid-March.
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.
Although the Pacific Fleet was strengthened by the transfer of the USS Yorktown to the Pacific, the torpedoed USS Saratoga was put out of service for half a year in January. [3] By the time USS Hornet arrived in the Pacific in March 1942, the Pacific Fleet had only three carriers compared to ten carriers of various sizes in the Combined Fleet.
A VT-2B Martin T4M-1 flying over the USS Saratoga in 1929. Note the squadron's dragon insignia on the fuselage just aft of the lower wing. Attack Squadron 35 (VA-35) was an aviation unit of the United States Navy. The squadron's nickname is unknown. Its insignia, a winged dragon, was revised several times during its lifetime.
Cruisers and destroyers would be responsible for defending this large formation at night. Fleet exercises held during the 1930s revealed the confusing nature of close range engagements during hours of darkness. In 1932, during Fleet Problem XIII, "attacking" destroyers closed to within 500 yd (460 m) of USS Saratoga before being detected.
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) .