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} |} The seventh USS ''Ranger'' (CV/CVA-61) was one of four ''Forrestal''-class supercarriers built for the United States Navy in the 1950s. Although all four ships of the class were completed with angled decks, ''Ranger'' had the distinction of being the first US carrier built from the beginning as an angled-deck ship. Commissioned in 1957, she served extensively in the Pacific, especially the Vietnam War, for which she earned 13 battle stars. Near the end of her career, she also served in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf. ''Ranger'' appeared on television in ''The Six Million Dollar Man'' and ''Baa Baa Black Sheep'', and in the films ''Top Gun'', ''Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home'' (standing in for the carrier ), and ''Flight of the Intruder''. ''Ranger'' was decommissioned in 1993, and was stored at Bremerton, Washington until March 2015. She is currently being scrapped in Brownsville. == Construction and trials == ''Ranger'' was the first American aircraft carrier to be laid down as an angled-deck ship (her elder sisters ''Forrestal'' and ''Saratoga'' had been laid down as axial-deck ships and were converted for an angled deck while under construction).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= CV-59 FORRESTAL class )〕 She was laid down 2 August 1954 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, Virginia, launched 29 September 1956, sponsored by Mrs. Arthur Radford (wife of Admiral Arthur W. Radford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) and commissioned at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard 10 August 1957, Captain Charles T. Booth II in command. ''Ranger'' joined the U.S. Atlantic Fleet on 3 October 1957. Just prior to sailing on 4 October for Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for shakedown, she received the men and planes of Attack Squadron 85. She conducted air operations, individual ship exercises, and final acceptance trials along the eastern seaboard and in the Caribbean Sea until 20 June 1958. She then departed Norfolk, Virginia, with 200 Naval Reserve officer candidates for a two-month cruise that took the carrier around Cape Horn. She arrived at her new homeport, Naval Air Station Alameda, Alameda, California, on 20 August and joined the Pacific Fleet. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Ranger (CV-61)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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