USS
SARATOGA
GETS
NEW HOME
Flying
the black flag of a ship under tow the aircraft carrier,
USS
Saratoga
slipped out of a berth at the old Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
just
after dawn Monday, August 3, 1998 bound for it's new home in
Middletown,
Rhode Island, at the Naval Education & Training
Center
on Narragansett Bay. Thousands were at New York piers
42
years age during the ships commissioning and in Mayport,
Florida,
for
it retirement in 1994., but,, only a handful of maintenance
workers
were
on hand Monday to give farewell as under a cloud of diesel
smoke
from the tugboats taking her to Narragansett Bay. During the
USS
Saratogo's 40 years of service she participated in every major
conflict which the United States was involved.
Source:
Tuesday, August 4, 1998, Wilmington News Journal.
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