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  USS Saratoga (CV-3) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saratoga was under overhaul during the 1939 fleet concentration, but between 2 April and 21 June 1940, she participated in Fleet Problem XXI, the last to be held due to the deepening world crisis.
Saratoga continued operations in the Hawaiian Island region, but on 11 January 1942, when heading towards a rendezvous with Enterprise 500 miles south-west of Oahu, she was hit without warning by a deep-running torpedo fired by Japanese submarine I-16.
Saratoga continued this important training duty for almost four months, but as early as October, her division commander was warned that "while employed primarily for training, Saratoga is of great value for combat and is to be kept potentially available for combat duty." The call came in January 1945.
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 USS Saratoga - Memory Alpha
The USS Saratoga (NCC-1867) was a Miranda-class Federation starship active in the late 23rd century.
The USS Saratoga (NCC-31911) was a modified Miranda-class Federation starship active in the mid 24th century.
In 2367, the Saratoga was part of a fleet of 39 starships massed at Wolf 359 in defense of sector 001 during an incursion by a Borg cube.
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 USS Saratoga
Saratoga opened fire with a broadside and was quickly answered by the brig, opening an inconclusive, three-hour battle.
As Saratoga closed the distance between herself and her quarry, Young ordered his helmsman to head for the open water between the enemy ships which proved to be the large, 22-gun letter of marque ship, Charming Molly, and a small schooner, Two Brothers.
On the 27th, Saratoga and Tonyn reached Cap Francais where Young turned the prize over to the French Admiralty court and arranged to have Saratoga docked to have her hull scraped and coated with pitch while awaiting the arrival of military cargo and French frigates to assist in convoying a fleet of Allied merchantmen.
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 USS Saratoga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The third Saratoga was a sloop-of-war commissioned 1843 and served until 1888.
The fifth Saratoga (CV-3) was the third aircraft carrier of the Navy, commissioned in 1927 and active in World War II.
In the canceled Science Fiction series Space: Above and Beyond there is a SCVN (Space Carrier Vehicle Nuclear) named the USS Saratoga (SCVN-2812) which serves as the home base for the 58th Marine Fighter Squadron (the main fighter group of the show) known as the Wildcards.
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 History of Ships and Navy/CVB-60 USS Saratoga
On 21 January 1975, Saratoga, on a Mediterranean deployment, was released from a response alert for possible evacuation of U.S. citizens from Cyprus during a period of strife on that island.
Saratoga, the Navy's oldest active duty carrier, hen headed for the rendezvous point with her relief, the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN-73), the Navy's newest carrier at the time.
Saratoga was towed out of the Naval Station Mayport basin on 22 May 1995 and taken to Philadelphia to become part of the Navy's inactive fleet.
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 USS Saratoga (CV 60)
USS SARATOGA was laid down on 16 December 1952 by the New York Naval Shipyard, New York City, N.Y.; launched on 8 October 1955; sponsored by Mrs.
From the Gulf, SARATOGA returned to the Mediterranean and was there relieved on 7 October by USS JOHN F. "Super Sara," along with Carrier Air Wing 17 (CVW-17), began her final deployment 12 January 1994, entering the Mediterranean Sea January 26 after a choppy Atlantic Ocean crossing.
USS SARATOGA and the USS MISSISSINEWA (AO 144) are in a minor collision during an underway replenishment off the Florida coast.
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 U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers - USS Saratoga (CV 3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In a daring move Saratoga was detached from the fleet with only a single cruiser as escort to make a wide sweep to the south and "attack" the Panama Canal, which was defended by the Scouting Fleet and Saratoga's sister ship, USS Lexington (CV 2).
Saratoga continued operations in the Hawaiian Island region, but on 11 January 1942, when heading towards a rendezvous with Enterprise, 500 miles southwest of Oahu, she was hit without warning by a deep-running torpedo fired by the Japanese submarine, I-16.
Saratoga had experimented with night flying as early as 1931, and many carriers had been forced to land returning aircraft at night during the war; but, only in August 1944, did a carrier, USS Independence (CVL 22), receive an air group specially equipped to operate at night.
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 USS Saratoga - TOSWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
USS Saratoga was a Constitution-class starship of Starfleet, formerly commanded by such Starfleet luminaries as Palin and Rigley O'Connor.
Although the Saratoga was a reliable cruiser throughout its life, and was (along with her contemporary USS Excalibur) one of the fleet's marquee ships during her heyday, it did not have the cachet of the newer Excelsior-class designs, and her aging deck design was beginning to be proven obsolete in modern combat environments.
Saratoga, once upon a time, may have been able to win the battle, but this was a different era, with a different commander and different crew.
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 USN Ships--USS Saratoga (CV-3, originally CC-3)
USS Saratoga, a 33,000-ton aircraft carrier, was converted from the battle cruiser Saratoga (CC-3) while under construction at Camden, New Jersey.
USS Saratoga still lies beneath the waters of Bikini atoll, where she is occasionally visited by divers.
USS Saratoga (CV-3) sinking in Bikini Lagoon after she was fatally damaged by the "Baker Day" underwater atomic bomb test, 25 July 1946.
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 DANFS: USS Saratoga (CV-3)
The fifth Saratoga (CV-3) was laid down on 25 September 1920 as Battle Cruiser #3 by the New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, N.J.; ordered converted to an aircraft carrier and reclassified CV-3 on 1 July 1922 in accordance with the Washington Treaty limiting naval armaments, launched on 7 April 1925, sponsored by Mrs.
Between 14 and 29 October 1940, Saratoga transported a draft of military personnel from San Pedro to Hawaii, and, on 6 January 1941, she entered the Bremerton Navy Yard for a long deferred modernization, including widening her flight deck forward and fitting a blister on her starboard side and additional small antiaircraft guns.
Saratoga continued operations in the Hawaiian Island region; but, on 11 January 1942, when heading towards a rendezvous with Enterprise, 500 miles south-west of Oahu, she was hit without warning by a deep-running torpedo fired by Japanese submarine, 1-16.
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 USS Saratoga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The construction of the USS Saratoga was originally started on 25 September 1920 as a “Lexington” class heavy cruiser in the Camden, New Jersey shipyard of the New York Shipbuilding Company.
Before World War II, the Saratoga was engaged with her sistership Lexington in developing the new role of the aircraft carrier.
The Saratoga was torpedoed twice and on 21 February 1945 she was hit by five kamikazes killing 123 men, injuring 192 and tearing a huge hole in the ship’s side.
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 Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - USS Saratoga (CV-3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The same year Saratoga was assigned to the Pacific Fleet and through the 1930s she participated in fleet exercises that helped develop and refine carrier strategy, tactics, and operations.
On August 31, a torpedo from the submarine I-26 left Saratoga dead in the water, and she was taken in tow by USS Minneapolis until she could again proceed under her own power.
After repairs at Pearl Harbor, she returned to the southwest Pacific where she remained through 1943, joined by USS Princeton for the Bougainville landings on November 1, and staged a raid on Rabaul that resulted in heavy damage to six Japanese cruisers and a destroyer.
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 USN Ships--USS Saratoga (CVA/CV-60)
USS Saratoga, second of the 56,000-ton Forrestal class aircraft carriers, was built at New York Naval Shipyard.
Given a major overhaul in 1968, Saratoga played host to President Nixon in May 1969, then departed for her 9th Mediterranean cruise, which was marked by a growing Soviet naval presence in the "Middle Sea" and by unrest in Arab nations.
USS Saratoga was placed out of commission and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register at the end of September 1994.
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 USS Saratoga Museum Foundation / Juliett484 Russian Submarine Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The mission of the Museum is to acquire, preserve and operate the super carrier USS Saratoga as an Air, Land & Sea Heritage and Technology Park.
The USS Saratoga Museum is tasked to educate and inform future generations about the ships and aircraft which defended our freedom, the people who developed and built them, and the men and women who served in them.
The USS Saratoga Museum Foundation has worked closely with the EDC since March 2003 to further the strong, symbiotic relationship the Foundation has with the EDC, the State of RI, the surrounding communities, schools and citizens.
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 Pocono Record Online: Carrier USS Saratoga departs Phila. for Middletown, R.I.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Under a cloud of tugboats' diesel smoke, the Saratoga began a five-day journey to the Naval Education and Training Center on Narragansett Bay, and an uncertain future.
The Saratoga, at 1,039 feet one of the largest conventional-powered carriers, is one of a handful of carriers from its generation still afloat.
The Saratoga had a long relationship with the Philadelphia shipyard, where it had been overhauled twice since its commissioning in 1956.
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 The USS Saratoga Aircraft Carrier by Nicholas Stael von Holstein on DeeperBlue.net - Fanatical About FreeDiving, Scuba ...
The USS Saratoga is the premier wreck of dozens of WW2 shipwrecks scattered around the Marshall Islands of the South Pacific Ocean.
The USS Saratoga was commissioned in 1927 and was the first fast track aircraft carrier of the US Navy.
Fifty years after the USS Sara roamed the sea surface reeking havoc and destruction, she now lies at peace and enveloped by coral reversing her role as destroyer to creator of life.
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 The Home Page of the USS Saratoga Museum Foundation, Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Saratoga is at this time still the property of the US Navy, and is not yet open to the public.
A gratifying number of you have already answered the call to help us save the carrier Saratoga and transform her into the centerpiece of a museum, education center and family attraction at Quonset Point.
A profile of Bob Albee, project manager of the USS Saratoga Museum Foundation and the Russian Sub Museum at Collier Point Park in Providence, and a Saratoga volunteer.
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 A History of Ships Named Enterprise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
USS Enterprise was forced to jettison her armament in order to escape.
USS Enterprise might easily have been sunk had it not been for the anti-aircraft gunfire of the battleship USS South Dakota (BB-57), which shot down a record 26 aircraft that day, a record which still stands.
Planes from the USS Enterprise, the USS Essex (CV-9), the USS Intrepid (CV-11), USS Cabot (CVL-28), and USS Franklin (CV-13) sink the battleship Musashi.
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 USS Saratoga
U.S.S. The U.S.S. Saratoga, SCVN 2812, Space Carrier Vehicle, John F. Kennedy Class, is professionally retooled by Jim Small of Small Art Works.
The U.S.S. Saratoga is 1/1400 scale, and measures about 14 inches long.
This will be the most accurate kit on the market ever produced.
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 Ex Astris Scientia - Wolf 359 - Overview
There is probably no model of it, and the name is only mentioned in a previous version of the script, although there is still a chance that there is a model of it in an unused shot.
With the exception of the U.S.S. Phoenix all of these ships were supposed to be in BoBW.
Okuda confirms this and he even states that there were actually two near-identical study models, of which one was damaged for the shots and one was later used for a decoration in Sisko's office and probably in Riker's ready-room in TNG: "Future Imperfect" too.
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 USS Saratoga - CV 60
The fifth Saratoga (CVA-60) was commissioned on 14 April 1956.
He was on the Saratoga, the Hancock and th Whitehall.
I served on the USS Saratoga as an MS.
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 Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - USS Saratoga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
During the American Revolution, the British were twice frustrated in their attempt to march from Canada down the Lake Champlain-Hudson River Valley to New York.
Standing in his way was Master Commandant Thomas Macdonough who, aided by the New York shipbuilder Noah Brown, had built his flagship, the aptly named corvette USS Saratoga, in the remarkably fast time of only thirty-five days.
After blockading the mouth of the Richelieu River during the summer, Macdonough was forced to drop down the lake as the British army began its advance in August.
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 USS SARATOGA ASSOCIATION
The American flagship on that day was the Saratoga, under the command of 28 year old Commodore Thomas MacDonough.
The purpose of the U.S.S. Saratoga Association is to perpetuate and honor the memory of two great fighting ships, and to hold an Annual Reunion of Saratoga Shipmates in order to enable members to maintain contact with other Shipmates.
All Shipmates who served aboard the U.S.S. Saratoga (CV-3), (CVA-60), (CV-60) including all Squadrons having operated with the U.S.S. Saratoga are eligible to become members of the Association.
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 USS Saratoga- News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
On Stardate 74041.4 the USS Saratoga entered a battle with the USS Reprisal against superior numbers of Cardassian Galor Class cruisers.
She was severely damaged during the attack resulting in an uncontrolled Plasma fire.
After the successful completion of their last mission which began immediately after the safe evac from the burning Saratoga, the crew and officers, en masse, have been transferred out of the theater to assume command of one of the few ships not currently committed to repelling the Dominion forces, namely, the USS Sierra.
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 The Saratogian - News - 03/22/2002 - Russian sub to give boost to USS Saratoga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Plans to open the USS Saratoga as a museum in Rhode Island picked up steam Thursday when a booster group purchased a Soviet submarine.
The Foundation won't say how much it paid for the sub, but a news release said no money pledged to the Saratoga was used, or will be used, on the sub.
The USS Saratoga, built beginning in 1955, was decommissioned in 1994, the same year as the sub.
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 USS Saratoga - Crew Bios   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
While his motivations are well in line, until recently, his ambition to serve aboard the Enterprise kept eating at him, at least one Robinson has always served aboard Every Enterprise (CMDR Rob Robinson being the last one to do so aboard the "D") Nathan was aboard the USS Saratoga (original Miranda class) at Wolf 359.
Nathan now finds it ironic and somewhat gratifying to be assigned to the USS Saratoga-A as the project supervisor for her repair and refit.
Commendations : Star of Valor : for actions in defense aboard the USS Saratoga during Borg Invasion of Earth.
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 The USS Liberty coverup unravels - Forums powered by Reason and Principle
The Saratoga's skipper has gone on the record stating he could have saved the Liberty and his fighters did not have nukes.
At approximately 2:00PM on 8 June 1967, in international waters near the Sinai Peninsula, the USS Liberty, a United States intelligence gathering ship, was attacked by Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo boats.
The attack on the USS Liberty by Israeli navy and air force - This attack was to be blamed on Egypt !
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 USS Saratoga (CV-3)
John Fry's book on the legendary aircraft carrier, entitled USS Saratoga (CV-3), was published in 1996 by Schiffer Publishing Ltd, of Atglen, Pennsylvania.
John also publishes the Saratoga Log, an 8-page quarterly newsletter filled with photos and personal recollections of men who served aboard the carrier.
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) Transits the Straits of Magellan
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