USS Saratoga



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displacement: 33,000 tons
length: 888 feet
beam: 106 feet
draft: 24 feet 1½ inches
speed: 33.91 knots
complement: 2,111 crew
armament: 8 eight-inch and 12 five-inch guns, and 4 six-pounders
aircraft: 81
class: Lexington

Commissioned: November 16, 1927
Decommissioned: August 15th 1946 - used to test effects of atomic bomb on naval vessel and was sunk by one of the test

For full detail on the tour of the USS Saratoga see the
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