Summary and Key Points: The USS Ranger (CV-61), a Forrestal-class aircraft carrier, had an impressive service history from 1957 to 1993. An evolution from the Essex class, the Forrestal class bridged ...

The USS Ranger's last voyage will cost the Navy a penny -- and one of its most legendary aircraft carriers. The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) has paid one red cent to transport and break apart a ...

Summary and Key Points: The USS Ranger (CVA-61), introduced in the mid-1950s, was the third Forrestal-class supercarrier and the first U.S. aircraft carrier designed from the outset with an angled ...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - The former aircraft carrier USS Ranger is expected to reach a South Texas shipyard this weekend as the vessel faces the scrapyard. The Brownsville Herald reports the Ranger ...

-The massive Forrestal-class carrier was a floating airbase for 3,500 sailors and over 100 aircraft, including nuclear-capable Douglas A-D6 Skyraiders. -The "Bonny," as she was known, supported U.S.

Time is running out for a local group that hoped to bring the famed aircraft carrier USS Ranger to the city’s waterfront as a floating museum. The 1,046-foot-long ship is scheduled to be towed from ...

It was about three weeks ago that former Navy surgical corpsman Robert Harmon heard the news. The supercarrier USS Ranger CV-61 was going to be stripped for metal and parts. “When it went for scrap, ...

The USS Ranger will leave its berth in Bremerton, Wash. Thursday morning to be scrapped, according to Naval Sea Systems Command. Featured in “Top Gun,” the 1,046-foot-long ship will be towed 16,000 ...

The crew of the USS Ranger CV-61 rescued all 138 of the ‘boat people’ from the wooden boat drifting on the South China Sea. “At that point, I was no longer a boat person. I became a refugee. With that ...

The first U.S. Navy ship designed and built from the keel up as an aircraft carrier took less than three years to complete. But when the USS Ranger (CV-4) slid down the ways at Newport News ...