USS Saratoga (CV-60) was a Forrestal class supercarrier of the United States Navy. She was the sixth ship named for the American Revolutionary War Battle of Saratoga. The keel was laid down on December 16, 1952 by the New York Naval Shipyard. Saratoga was launched on October 8, 1955, sponsored by Mrs. Charles S. Thomas, wife of the Secretary of the Navy, and she was commissioned on April 14, 1956, with Captain R. J. Stroh in command.

Scale 1/800
Length 15.6"
Width 5"
Height 3.8"

For the next several months, Saratoga conducted various engineering, flight, steering, structural, and gunnery tests. On August 1956, she sailed for Guantanamo Bay and her shakedown cruise. She departed her home port Mayport, Florida on September 3, 1957 for her maiden transatlantic voyage. Saratoga headed to the Norwegian Sea and participated in Operation Strikeback, joint naval maneuvers of the Norht Atlantic Treaty Organization countries.

On February 1, 1958, the carrier left for the Mediterranean and her first deployment with the Sixth Fleet. On May 17, 1968, Armed Forces Day, she was the host ship for President Richard M. Nixon during the firepower demonstration conducted by Carrier Air Wing Three in the Virginia Capes area. From September 2 to 19, 1972, Saratoga aircraft flew over 800 combat strike missions against targets in North Vietnam. The ship received one battle star for service in the Vietnamese conflict.

In August 1990, Saratoga departed for the Red Sea in support of Operation Desert Shield and made a record-breaking six Suez Canal transits. From late August 1990 to January 17, 1991, the carrier completed three Red Sea patrols and more than 9,000 sorties. She also provided emergency medical aid for three foreign nationals on transiting merchant ships, and maintained a 24-hour defense alert for the Red Sea and western Saudi Arabia. On June 24, 1994, Saratoga returned from her final deployment. She was decommissioned on August 20, 1994, and will likely be turned into a museum ship in the future.

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