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  Ship Table Fate status
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  Ship Caption USS ''Ranger'' underway at sea, 1930s
  Ship Builder Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co
  Ship Ordered 1 November 1930
  Ship Laid Down 26 September 1931
  Ship Launched 25 February 1933
  Ship Commissioned 4 June 1934
  Ship Decommissioned 18 October 1946
  Ship Fate Sold for scrap
  Ship Struck 29 October 1946
  Ship Displacement As built<br>14,576 tons standard<br>17,577 tons full load
  Ship Length 730 feet (waterline)<br>769 feet (overall)
  Ship Beam 80 feet (waterline)<br>109 feet 5 inches (overall)
  Ship Draught 22 feet 4875 inches
  Ship Propulsion 6 &times boilers<br>Steam turbines<br>2 &times shafts<br>53,500 shp
  Ship Speed 2925 knots
  Ship Range 10,000 miles at 15 knots
  Ship Complement 2,148 officers and men (1941)
  Ship Armament 8 &times single 5 inch 25 caliber guns<br>40 &times 50 caliber machine guns
  Ship Armour 2 inch sides and bulkheads<br>1 inch top over steering gear
  Ship Aircraft 86 aircraft<br>3 &times catapults
  Ship Honours American Defense Service Medal ("A" device) / American Campaign Medal/European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (2 stars) / Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal / World War II Victory Medal