USS Saratoga CV-3

Type:
Aircraft Carrier (a)
Class:
Builder:
New York Shipbuilding Corp.
Camden, New Jersey
Hull Number:
CV-3 (b)
Ordered:
May 5, 1917
Commissioned:
November 16, 1927
Keel Laid:
September 25, 1920
Decommissioned:
N/A
Launched:
April 7, 1925
Stricken:
August 15, 1946
Fate:
Sunk as target off Bikini Atoll July 25, 1946 during Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests.
   
Notes  
(a):
Ordered and laid down as a battlecruiser.
(b):
Ordered at CC-3, re-authorized as CV-3 July 1, 1922.


Builder's Data
Page published June 6, 2008