Lot of early US Navy Cap Ship Talleys to include 1) USS SARATOGA CV-3. USS Saratoga (CV-3) was a Lexington-class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy during the 1920s. Originally designed as a battlecruiser, she was converted into one of the Navy's first aircraft carriers during construction to comply with the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. The ship entered service in 1928 and was assigned to the Pacific Fleet for her entire career. Saratoga and her sister ship, Lexington, were used to develop and refine carrier tactics in a series of annual exercises before World War II. On more than one occasion these exercises included successful surprise attacks on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. She was one of three prewar US fleet aircraft carriers, along with Enterprise and Ranger, to serve throughout World War II. Shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Saratoga was the centerpiece of the unsuccessful American effort to relieve Wake Island and was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine a few weeks later. After lengthy repairs, the ship supported forces participating in the Guadalcanal Campaign and her aircraft sank the light carrier Ryujo during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons in August 1942. She was again torpedoed the following month and returned to the Solomon Islands area after repairs were completed. In 1943, Saratoga supported Allied forces involved in the New Georgia Campaign and invasion of Bougainville in the northern Solomon Islands and her aircraft twice attacked the Japanese base at Rabaul in November. Early in 1944, her aircraft provided air support during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands Campaign before she was transferred to the Indian Ocean for several months to support the British Eastern Fleet as it attacked targets in Java and Sumatra. After a brief refit in mid-1944, the ship became a training ship for the rest of the year. In early 1945, Saratoga participated in the Battle of Iwo Jima as a dedicated night fighter carrier. Several days into the battle, she was badly damaged by kamikaze hits and was forced to return to the United States for repairs. While under repair, the ship, now increasingly obsolete, was permanently modified as a training carrier with some of her hangar deck converted into classrooms. Saratoga remained in this role for the rest of the war and was then used to ferry troops back to the United States after the Japanese surrender in August, as a part of Operation Magic Carpet. In mid-1946, the ship was a target for nuclear weapon tests during Operation Crossroads. She survived the first test with little damage, but was sunk by a second test. 2) DEC 16 1907 AROUND THE WORLD FEB 22 1909 CAP TALLEY. On the warm, cloudy morning of December 16, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt's "Great White Fleet," a force of sixteen battleships bristling with guns and painted sparkling white, steam out of Hampton Roads, Virginia to begin its 43,000-mile, 14-month circumnavigation of the globe "to demonstrate to the world America's naval prowess." The four-mile-long armada's world tour included 20 port calls on six continents, and is widely considered one of the greatest peacetime achievements of the U.S. Navy. These Talleys were worn by virtually everybody during that tour. 3) USS OLYMPIA CAP TALLEY. USS Olympia (C-6) is a protected cruiser that saw service with the United States Navy from her commissioning in 1895 until 1922. She is currently a museum ship in Philadelphia. Olympia became famous as the flagship of Commodore George Dewey during the Battle of Manila Bay in the Spanish–American War in 1898. The ship was decommissioned after returning to the U.S. in 1899, but was returned to active service in 1902. She served until World War I as a training ship for naval cadets and as a floating barracks in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1917, she was mobilized again for war service, patrolling the American coast and escorting transport ships. After World War I, Olympia participated in the 1919 Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and conducted cruises in the Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas to promote peace in the unstable Balkan countries. In 1921, the ship carried the remains of World War I's Unknown Soldier from France to Washington, D.C., where his body was interred in Arlington National Cemetery. Olympia was decommissioned for the last time in December 1922 and placed in reserve. In 1957, the U.S. Navy ceded title to the Cruiser Olympia Association, which restored the ship to her 1898 configuration. Since then, Olympia has been a museum ship in Philadelphia, where it is now part of the Independence Seaport Museum. Olympia was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966. Olympia is the oldest steel American warship still afloat. Repairs, estimated at $10 to 20 million, were desperately needed to keep Olympia afloat, and in 2010 the Independence Seaport Museum considered finding a new steward for the ship. By 2014, the museum reversed its plan to find a new steward and soon obtained funding from private donors as well as federal and state agencies to begin work on repairing the ship. The museum invested in extensive stabilization measures including reinforcing the most deteriorated areas of the hull, expanding the alarm system, installing a network of bilge pumping stand pipes (which will provide greater damage control capability in the unlikely event of a hull breach), extensive deck patching and extensive repair and recoating of the ship's rigging. This work was made possible by donations from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the U.S. Cruiser Sailors Association and many individual donors. By 2017, the museum completed the first phase of repairs to the ship and has embarked on an ambitious national campaign to raise the $20 million needed to dry-dock Olympia and address waterline deterioration of the hull. 4) USS HARTFORD CAP TALLEY.  Commissioned on May 27, 1859, the screw sloop-of-war, USS Hartford, sailed for service in the East India Squadron.  With the outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861, she returned to the United States to serve as Rear Admiral David G. Farragut's flagship with the West Gulf Blockading Squadron.   Subsequently, Hartford participated in the Battle of New Orleans in April and May 1862, the Siege of Vicksburg a year later, and the Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864, where twelve of her crew received the Medal of Honor.   Following repairs in mid-1865, she returned as the flagship to the newly-organized Asiatic Station Squadron, sailing the Pacific until decommissioned at Mare Island, California, in January 1887 for apprentice sea-training use.  Rebuilt at this location, Hartford was recommissioned in October 1899 and transferred to the Atlantic to be a training and cruise ship for Midshipmen.   In 1912, she became the station ship at Charleston, South Carolina, until put out of service in 1926 where she remained.  In October 1938, she was moved to Washington, D.C., with the intent for her to be a museum ship at the Washington Navy Yard.   In October 1945, following World War II, Hartford was towed to Norfolk, Virginia, classified as a relic, and remained until she sank at her berth in November 1956. 5) U.S.N.A. ORION CAP TALLEY. The ship's launch set a new world's record for rapid construction. The ship, and sister Jason, were built on the patented Isherwood System of longitudinal framing with propulsion machinery in the stern. Cargo space was provided by six large, self trimming, coal holds for 2,248 short tons (2,039,351 kg) of coal and four deep tanks forward under the lower deck combined with tanks in the inner bottom under the holds for 772,400 US gallons (2,923,852 L) of oil cargo. The coal holds had two hatches each, except for the one hatch for the forward hold, and the contract requirement was for each hatch being able to handle 100 short tons (90,718 kg) per hour which was met in the official test by a figure of 137.5 short tons (124,738 kg) per hour. An advantage of the Isherwood framing was a weight saving that allowed Orion to carry the specified deadweight on a draft of 26 feet 10.5 inches (8.2 m) instead of the contracted draft at that load of 27 feet 7.5 inches (8.4 m) allowing for an increase of 500 short tons (453,592 kg) of coal at specified draft. Propulsion was by two triple expansion steam engines with cylinders of 27 inches (68.6 cm), 46 inches (116.8 cm) and 76 inches (193.0 cm) diameter and a 48 inches (121.9 cm) stroke with steam from three double ended Scotch boilers driving two 16 feet 6 inches (5.0 m) three bladed propellers with 18 feet (5.5 m) mean pitch with average trial speed of 14.468 knots (16.649 miles per hour; 26.795 kilometres per hour) achieved.