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USS Saratoga (CV-3) (Modelcard)

Details: 
Career (United States)  
Ordered: 1917 (as battlecruiser)
1922 (as aircraft carrier) 
Builder: New York Shipbuilding Corporation 
Laid down: 25 September 1920 
Launched: 7 April 1925 
Commissioned: 16 November 1927 
Reclassified: 1 July 1922 battlecruiser to CV 
Struck: 15 August 1946 
Nickname: Sara Maru Sister Sara Stripe-Stacked Sara 
Honors and
awards: American Defense Service Medal ("Fleet" clasp)/American Campaign Medal / Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (8 battle stars) / World War II Victory Medal 
Fate: Sunk by A-bomb test 25 July 1946 
General characteristics 
Class and type: Lexington-class aircraft carrier 
Displacement: Design:
36,000 tons standard
38,746 tons; 53,000 tons (1945) 
Length: 850 feet (waterline)
880 feet (overall) 
Beam: 105 feet 5.25 inches (waterline)
106 feet (overall) 
Draught: 24 feet 3 inches (design) 
Propulsion: Design:
16 × boilers at 300 psi
Geared turbines and electric drive
4 × shafts
180,000 shp; 213,000 shp reached in service 
Speed: 33.25 knots (design); 34.99 knots reached in service 
Range: 10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) 
Complement: 2,122 officers and men 
Sensors and
processing systems: CXAM-1 RADAR[1] 
Armament: As built:
4 × twin 8-inch (200 mm) 55 caliber guns
12 × single 5-inch (130 mm) guns 
Armour: Belt: 5-inch (130 mm) to 7-inch (180 mm)
2-inch (51 mm) protective 3rd deck
3-inch (76 mm) flat to 4.5-inch (110 mm) over steering gear 
Aircraft carried: As built:
91 aircraft
2 × elevators
1 × flywheel catapult 

USS Saratoga (CV-3) was the second aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, the fifth ship to bear her name. She was commissioned one month earlier than her sister and class leader, Lexington, which is the third actually commissioned after Langley and Saratoga. As Saratoga was visually identical to Lexington, her funnel was painted with a large black vertical stripe to assist pilots in recognizing her. This identifying mark earned her the nickname "Stripe-Stacked Sara." Saratoga, Enterprise, and Ranger were the only fleet aircraft carriers of the United States Navy built before the war to survive and serve throughout the U.S. involvement in World War II.

She was laid down on 25 September 1920, as Lexington class Battle Cruiser #3 by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, a division of the American Brown-Boveri Electric Corporation at Camden, New Jersey; construction cancelled and re-ordered as an aircraft carrier and reclassified CV-3 on 1 July 1922, in accordance with the Washington Naval Treaty limiting naval armaments; launched on 7 April 1925; sponsored by Mrs. Curtis D. Wilbur, wife of the Secretary of the Navy; and commissioned on 16 November 1927, Captain Harry E. Yarnell in command.

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