Keel Laid: March 16, 1942
                 Launched: April 4, 1943
                 Commissioned: July 24, 1943
                 Decommissioned: January 21, 1955

                 Builder: New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J.
                 Length, overall: 622½ feet 
                 Beam: 71½ feet; extreme width at flight deck: 109 feet 2 inches
                 Draft: 26 feet 
                 Displacement: approx. 11,000 tons 
                 Speed: 32 knots 
                 Planes: 45 
                 Crew: 1569 
                 Armament: 26 40mm guns