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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.
The Navy had been developing a quadruple 1.1-inch light AA gun since the early 1930s, but it was delayed with teething problems, so five single 3"/50 caliber Mk 10 AA guns were installed in 1940 as temporary replacements. They fired 13-pound (5.9 kg) shells at a muzzle velocity of 2,700 ft/s (820 m/s).
The 8"/55 caliber gun (spoken "eight-inch-fifty-five-caliber") formed the main battery of United States Navy heavy cruisers and two early aircraft carriers. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun barrel had an internal diameter of 8 inches (203 mm), and the barrel was 55 calibers long (barrel length is 8 inch × 55 = 440 inches ...
On 15 Mar 1943 CVG-6(1st) was established and the squadron was assigned to it, then four months later was transferred to Saratoga Air Group and became that air group's second VF-3. When it became Saratoga's second VF-3 (VF-3(3rd)) it adopted the felix the cat insignia from Saratoga's first VF-3 (VF-3(2nd)) but that first Saratoga VF-3 also kept ...
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
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English: Vought O2U-2 Corsair aircraft of Marine Scouting Squadron 14 (VS-14M) fly past the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) while preparing to land on board, circa 1930. Note the U.S. Marine Corps insignia painted under the after cockpit of the closest aircraft.
English: The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3), circa 1942. Planes on deck include five Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighters, six Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless dive bombers and one Grumman TBF-1 Avenger torpedo plane.