USS Saratoga (CV-60)

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USS Saratoga (CV-60)

USS Saratoga underway in 1992
History
United States
Name	Saratoga
Namesake	Saratoga
Ordered	23 July 1952
Builder	New York Naval Shipyard
Cost	$209.7 million[1]
Laid down	16 December 1952
Launched	8 October 1955
Acquired	14 April 1956
Commissioned	14 April 1956
Decommissioned	20 August 1994
Reclassified	CVA-60, 1 October 1952 CV-60, 30 June 1972
Stricken	20 August 1994
Identification	Callsign: NJRS Hull number: CVB-60
Nickname(s)	Sara
Fate	Scrapped in 2019[2]
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General characteristics
Class and type	Forrestal-class aircraft carrier
Displacement	81,101 long tons (82,402 t) full, 61,235 long tons (62,218 t) light, 19,866 long tons (20,185 t) dead
Length	1,063 ft (324 m)
Beam	130 ft (40 m) waterline, 252 ft (77 m) extreme
Draft	37 ft (11 m)
Propulsion	4 Westinghouse geared turbines, 4 shafts, 280,000 shp (210,000 kW) 8 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Speed	35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Complement	552 officers, 4988 men
Sensors and processing systems	AN/SPS-48 3D air search radar AN/SPS-48 2D air search radar AN/SPS-10 surface search radar
Electronic warfare & decoys	Mark 36 SRBOC
Armament	8 × 5"/54 caliber Mark 42 guns (127 mm) (removed) NATO Sea Sparrow Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft carried	70–90

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.

Commissioned in 1956, she spent most of her career in the Mediterranean, but also participated during the Vietnam War, receiving one battle star for her service. One of her last operational duties was to participate in Operation Desert Storm.

Saratoga was decommissioned in 1994, and was stored at Naval Station Newport in Newport, Rhode Island. Multiple unsuccessful attempts were made to preserve her as a museum ship. The Navy paid ESCO Marine of Brownsville, Texas, one cent to take the ship for dismantling and recycling. On 15 September 2014, ex-Saratoga arrived in Brownsville, Texas, to be scrapped. Scrapping was completed by early 2019.