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Allied Warships

USS Ranger (CV 4)

Aircraft carrier of the Ranger class


USS Ranger shortly before the war.

NavyThe US Navy
TypeAircraft carrier
ClassRanger 
PennantCV 4 
Built byNewport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. (Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down26 Sep, 1931 
Launched25 Feb, 1933 
Commissioned4 Jun, 1934 
End service18 Oct, 1946 
Loss position
 
HistoryShe served mainly in the Atlantic during WWII and this ship carried out the only fleet carrier attack in the Atlantic during the war.

Decommissioned 18 October 1946.
Stricken 29 October 1946.
Sold 28 January 1947 and scrapped at Chester, Pennsylvaina starting in February 1947. 

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