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Description
Name: SaratogaNamesake: Battle of Saratoga
Ordered:
1917 (as a battlecruiser)
1922 (as an aircraft carrier)
Builder: New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey
Laid down: 25 September 1920
Launched: 7 April 1925
Commissioned: 16 November 1927
Reclassified: 1 July 1922 to aircraft carrier
Stricken: 15 August 1946
Identification Hull number: CC-3, then CV-3
Nickname(s):
Sara Maru
Sister Sara
Honors and awards: 8 battle stars
Fate: Sunk by atomic bomb test, 25 July 1946
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type: Lexington-class aircraft carrier
Displacement: 36,000 long tons (37,000 t) (standard)
Length: 888 ft (270.7 m)
Beam: 106 ft (32.3 m)
Draft: 30 ft 5 in (9.3 m) (deep load)
Installed power:
16 water-tube boilers
180,000 shp (130,000 kW)
Propulsion: 4 shafts; 4 sets turbo-electric drive
Speed: 33.25 knots (61.58 km/h; 38.26 mph)
Range: 10,000 nmi (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 2,791 (including aviation personnel) in 1942
Armament:
4 × twin 8 in (203 mm) guns
12 × single 5 in (127 mm) AA guns
Armor:
Belt: 5–7 in (127–178 mm)
Deck: 0.75–2 in (19–51 mm)
Gun turrets: 0.75 in (19 mm)
Bulkheads: 5–7 in (127–178 mm)
Aircraft carried: 78
Aviation facilities: 1 Aircraft catapult
