- USS Ranger (CV-61) – United States Navy aircraft carrier
- Nickname – Top Gun of the Pacific Fleet
- Commissioned – August 10, 1957, Newport News, VA
- Powerplant – eight boilers
producing over 280,000 horsepower
- Crew complement – 5,100 with air wing aboard
- Length – 1,071 ft., 11 in. (304 m)
- Width at flight deck – 271 ft. (19.3 m)
- Height – 97 ft. (29.5 m) Waterline to Bridge
- Draft – 36 ft. (11 m)
- Displacement – 81,000 tons
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- Rudders – 2 at 45 tons
- Propellers – 4 at 21 feet diameter each
- Maximum speed – 30 plus knots
- Catapults – 4 steam powered
- Arresting Wires – 4 hydraulic
- Aircraft elevators - 4
- Anchors – 2 at 30 tons each
- Anchor chain links – 1,128
each weighing 360 lbs.
- Aircraft complement – 70 to 80 assorted
- Telephones – 2,300
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