Keel Laid: August 21, 1944
                 Launched: September 1, 1945
                 Commissioned: February 9, 1947
                 Decommissioned: May 27, 1970

                 Builder: New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J.
                 Length, overall: 684 feet 
                 Beam: 76 feet 9 inches; extreme width: 115 feet
                 Draft: 28 feet 
                 Displacement: approx. 14500 tons 
                 Speed: 33 knots
                 Planes: 50 + 
                 Crew: 1787
                 Armament: 40 40mm guns