After a week of liberty on the sun-drenched Spanish island, it was back to business as SARATOGA participated in the Mediterranean exercise Dynamic Impact. [3], Saratoga returned to Mayport and the Florida coast from 22 January until 11 June 1970 when she again sailed for duty with the Sixth Fleet. [14], On 5 December 1985 Saratoga became the first aircraft carrier to dock pierside on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. SARATOGA received one battle star for service in the Vietnamese conflict. [3], On 17 May 1969, Armed Forces Day, she was the host ship for President Richard Nixon during the firepower demonstration conducted by Carrier Air Wing Three in the Virginia Capes area. Fortunately there was little damage and no injuries reported. Needless to say, all confrontations were intended to be simulated attacks. During her last period on station, Saratoga's aircraft battered targets in the heart of North Vietnam for over a week. Many died, including the captain. In 2365, Captain Martin Jedlicka led a deep space exploration mission of Sector 002. [28][29] On 21 August 2014, Saratoga departed Naval Station Newport and made its way down Narragansett Bay to the Atlantic Ocean, en route to the Esco Marine ship recycling plant in Brownsville, Texas. Before year's end, she was on station in the Tonkin Gulf a total of seven times: 18 May to 21 June; 1 to 16 July; 28 July to 22 August; 2 to 19 September; 29 September to 21 October; 5 November to 8 December; and 18 to 31 December. Efforts were abandoned when startup costs increased from $4.5 million to $6.8 million. [24], During the "enhanced tactical" phase of the training exercises, the Brown Forces were to attempt an amphibious landing at Saros Bay in the Aegean Sea against the resistance offered by the Green Forces. Sailing with Princeton, Saratoga took part in the Gilbert Islands offensive in November. A heavily-armed A-6E Intruder fired Rockeye cluster bombs and a Harpoon anti-ship cruise missile at a Libyan missile patrol boat operating on the "Line of Death." The USS Saratoga (NCC-1887) was a 23rd century Federation Miranda-class starship operated by Starfleet. On 9 July, she departed Mayport for her ninth Mediterranean deployment. Along with several foreign vessels, she entered the Tagus River delta and anchored in front of the Presidential Palace of Belém. On July 7, Saratoga received orders to move to the Southwest Pacific to aid in Allied operations in the Solomon Islands. Work on Saratoga soon resumed and the hull was launched on April 7, 1925 with Olive D. Wilbur, wife of Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur, serving as sponsor. After seven months and 21 days, 11,700 arrested landings, 12,700 sorties flown, 36,382 miles traveled and a record six Suez Canal transits, SARATOGA returned home 28 March to a hero's welcome. Then-commanding officer, CAPT James H. Flatley III, made naval aviation history on 21 June 1980 when he completed his 1,500th carrier arrested landing. Later that afternoon, U.S. aircraft turned back two Libyan Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 fighter planes over the disputed Gulf of Sidra. After an extensive shipyard period in the second half of 1964, Saratoga departed for the Mediterranean, arriving just before Christmas 1964. By 8:15 PM the fires were under control and the carrier was sent to Bremerton for repairs. The freighter's bridge and superstructure were damaged by the carrier's flight-deck. Officials had wanted to place the ship in downtown Jacksonville, on the St. Johns River along the Southbank Riverwalk. The Jacksonville USS Saratoga Museum Foundation, Inc ceased operating in the summer of 1995. The angled deck of the carrier got into the bridge of the freighter. Thousands of support missions were flown, but more importantly, not one single piece of ordnance was dropped - proving that U.S. military presence is a powerful deterrent. In 2365, Captain Martin Jedlicka led a deep space exploration mission of Sector 002. The entry can be found here. That night, word was received that Gamal Abdul Nasser, President of the United Arab Republic had died; an event that might plunge the entire Middle East into a crisis. Originally conceived as part of a large building program in 1916, USS Saratoga was intended to be a Lexington-class battlecruiser mounting eight 16" guns and sixteen 6" guns. On 20 October, her aircraft flew 83 close air support sorties in six hours in support of a force of 250 Territorials beleaguered by the North Vietnamese 48th Regiment. Because of the damage SARATOGA had to steam back to Norfolk, Va. Numerous surveillance and reconnaissance flights were conducted by Carrier Wing Three aircraft against Soviet surface units, including the carrier MOSKVA, operating southeast of Crete. During this time, it operated for periods with HMS Victorious and the light carrier USS Princeton (CVL-23). An Italian luxury liner, Achille Lauro, on a pleasure cruise departing from Alexandria, was hijacked by terrorists from the Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF). After securing the approval of Saratoga's Commanding Officer and the Battle Group Commander, RADM Philip Dur, the Combat Direction Center Officer implemented the simulated assault plan. The USS Saratoga (CV-3), commissioned in 1927, was an Lexington-class American Aircraft carrier measuring 268 meters (880 ft.) in length and weighting 39,000 tons. In a daring rescue by helicopters supported by CVW-3 aircraft the following day, he was lifted from the midst of enemy soldiers and returned to SARATOGA. Saratoga was decommissioned in 1994, and was stored at Naval Station Newport in Newport, Rhode Island. She returned briefly to Mayport before entering the Norfolk Naval Shipyard for repairs. The ship’s name comes from the Revolutionary battle of Saratoga. On 6 June, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and members of his cabinet boarded SARATOGA to observe operations on board the giant carrier. Samuel C. Flynn Jr., with radar intercept officer Lt. William H. John, shot down one of the MiG aircraft. Immediately after entering the Med, Saratoga was deployed to the eastern Mediterranean during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, where her medical facility was used to treat survivors of the Israeli attack on USS Liberty. HMS Cumberland met US Task Group 58.5 (Aircraft Carrier USS Saratoga and destroyers USS Cummings, USS Dunlap, and USS Fanning) SW off Cocos Islands with ships of Eastern Fleet. Unable to sail until June 1, it did not arrive in the battle area until June 9. Her first trip out took her to the Norwegian Sea to participate in NATO exercises. On 19 December, she reentered the New York Naval Shipyard and remained there until 28 February 1957. SARATOGA was decommissioned at the Naval Station, Mayport, Fla., 20 August 1994, and was stricken from the Navy List the same day. The purpose of the U.S.S. The ship was ultimately destroyed by a Borg cutting beam in combination with a warp core breach. In the Star Trek Online mission "State of Q" (prior to its being removed), the Iconians send a number of Borg drones back in time to the Saratoga during the Battle of Wolf 359, with the intention of killing Benjamin Sisko and changing history. SARATOGA operated in this area again in October because of the crisis in Lebanon. On 27 August, aircraft from SARATOGA and USS INDEPENDENCE (CV 62), both in the Arabian Gulf, began enforcing the no-fly zone south of the 32nd parallel in Iraq under Operation Southern Watch. The ship had just departed Alexandria, Egypt, on a pleasure cruise of the Mediterranean. After tense negotiations and the killing of an American tourist, the hijackers traveled in a battered tugboat to the city of Port Said, Egypt, after ACHILLE LAURO anchored just off the coast. On 11 April 1972, SARATOGA sailed from Mayport en route to Subic Bay, P.I., and her first deployment to the western Pacific. The fire scorches the carrier's amidships hull. [24], As the drill progressed, the Combat Direction Center Officer (TAO) used language to indicate he was preparing to fire a live missile, but due to the absence of standard terminology, the responsible officers failed to appreciate the significance of the terms used and the requests made. This exercise featured joint maneuvers with several NATO-member navies, as well as the U.S. Air Force. An explosion floods the engineering room of SARATOGA at Jacksonville, Florida. The Med cruise from June to December 1967 was anything but routine. The bridge of the Saratoga was the reuse of the Grissom bridge from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, which was in fact a reuse of the Enterprise bridge. On March 4, Saratoga departed the Pacific with orders to join the British Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean. An aerosol can explodes in the #2 incinerator of the USS SARATOGA causing a fire which threatens the aircraft of Hangar Bay #2. [17] The Tomcat pilot, Timothy W. Dorsey, was duly disciplined and permanently removed from flying status,[18] but was recommended for promotion to rear admiral 25 years later.[19][20]. Click here to get the form to pay your dues, USS Saratoga Vietnam Blue Water Disability Claims, The purpose of the U.S.S. Departing "Groundhog Station" 7 April , SARATOGA transited the Straits of Messina between Sicily and the toe of the "boot" of southern Italy, for a port call at Naples, Italy, before returning to the Adriatic for the fourth time on 17 April. USS Saratoga (CV-3) in Puget Sound after a refit, September 1944. During the period 2 to 19 September, SARATOGA aircraft flew over 800 combat strike missions against targets in North Vietnam. Without providing prior notice, officers on Saratoga woke the enlisted Sea Sparrow missile team and directed them to conduct the simulated attack. A few hours later, terrorists from the Palestinian Liberation Front hijacked the ship. The missiles missed their F-14 Tomcat targets and fell harmlessly into the water. Her first trip out took her to the Norwegian Sea to participate in NATO exercises. The Navy paid ESCO Marine of Brownsville, Texas, one cent to take the ship for dismantling and recycling.