USS Saratoga CVA 60 being towed from Newport, Rhode Island

USS Saratoga (CV-CVA-CVB-60), is one of four Forrestal-class supercarriers built for the United States Navy in the 1950s. Saratoga was the sixth U.S. Navy ship, and the second aircraft carrier, to be named for the Battle of Saratoga in the American Revolutionary.
Commissioned in 1956, she spent most of her career in the Mediterranean, but also participated during the Vietnam War, receiving one battle star for her service. One of her last operational duties was to participate in Operation Desert Storm.
Saratoga was decommissioned in 1994, and had been stored in Newport, Rhode Island. Multiple unsuccessful attempts have been made to preserve her as a museum ship. The Navy is paying ESCO Marine of Brownsville, Texas, one cent to take the ship for dismantling and recycling. On August 21st, 2014, Saratoga departed Newport enroute to be scrapped.
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