USS Saratoga (1946): Shipwreck Map, Location & Facts

Name	USS Saratoga	Wikidata label
Year lost	1946	Wikidata P793 significant event, point-in-time qualifier
Era	Modern	derived from year
Ship type	aircraft carrier, battlecruiser	Wikidata P31 instance of
Cause of loss	War action	Keyword match in English Wikipedia lead sentence
Nationality / flag	United States	Wikidata P8047 country of registry
Operator	United States Navy	Wikidata P137 operator
Conflict	World War II	Wikidata P607 conflict
Sea / ocean	North Pacific Ocean	Natural Earth marine areas (public domain), point-in-polygon
Position	11.6000, 165.5000	Wikidata P793 significant event, coordinate qualifier (CC0)

About the wreck

USS Saratoga (CV-3) was a Lexington-class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy during the 1920s. Originally designed as a battlecruiser, she was converted into one of the Navy's first aircraft carriers during construction to comply with the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. The ship entered service in 1928 and was assigned to the Pacific Fleet for her entire career. Saratoga and her sister ship, Lexington, were used to develop and refine carrier tactics in a series of annual exercises before World War II. On more than one occasion these exercises included successful surprise attacks on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. She was one of three prewar US fleet aircraft carriers, along with Enterprise and Ranger, to serve throughout World War II.

Shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Saratoga was the centerpiece of the unsuccessful American effort to relieve Wake Island and was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine a few weeks later. After lengthy repairs, the ship supported forces participating in the Guadalcanal campaign and her aircraft sank the light carrier Ryūjō during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons in August 1942.

Location

Recorded position: 11.6000, 165.5000 (Wikidata P793 significant event, coordinate qualifier (CC0); may be approximate)
Sea / ocean: North Pacific Ocean

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OpenStreetMap

Text adapted from the Wikipedia article USS Saratoga (CV-3) (revision 1379913003), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; condensed by selecting paragraphs and trimming at sentence boundaries; citations and formatting removed. No text added. This excerpt is available under the same licence.