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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 .
The Forrestal class was the first completed class of "supercarriers" of the Navy, so called because of their then-extraordinarily high tonnage (75,000 tons, 25% larger than the post-World War II-era Midway class), full integration of the angled deck, very large island, and most importantly their extremely strong air wing (80–100 jet aircraft, compared to 65–75 for the Midway class and ...
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
Boeing KC-135E Stratotanker (s/n 58-0008) from the 145th Air Refueling Squadron, 160th Air Refueling Group, Ohio Air National Guard, refuels two U.S. Navy Grumman F-14A Tomcat fighters from Fighter Squadron VF-74 Be-Devilers, assigned to Carrier Air Wing 17 (CVW-17) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-60).
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 ...
VA-204 (now designated VFC-204) is the only squadron which was established with the wing and remains a part of it today. [citation needed] In June 1975, the wing deployed aboard USS Saratoga (CV-60), composed of VF-201, VF-202, VA-203, VA-204, VA-205, VPF-206, and VAQ-208. The squadrons conducted carrier qualifications alongside units from CVWR-30.
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