Talk:Saratoga/@comment-69.127.142.129-20161118185358

For those wondering about Sara maru

http://history.stackexchange.com/questions/25427/why-is-uss-saratoga-cv3-nicknamed-sara-maru

originally a name of derision applied (I'm assuming by crews of other ships) due to her knack for managing to be indisposed during major battles with the Japanese. The first two years of World War II frequently found Saratoga in the wrong place at the wrong time. ...

... Saratoga spent much of summer 1943 moored in port. Because of the two torpedo hits, she had missed out on three epic carrier-versus-carrier battles: Coral Sea, Midway, and Santa Cruz. Saratoga thus became known derisively as "the Reluctant Dragon" and "the Pond Lily." Probably the meanest was "Sara Maru," which put her in league with the enemy. As a point of clarification those "two torpedo hits" happened in separate incidents, and each separately caused her to have to be laid up in drydock for repairs.