Keel Laid: September 25, 1939 
                 Launched: December 14, 1940
                 Commissioned: October 20, 1941
                 Sunk: October 27, 1942

                 Builder: Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA.
                 Propulsion system: nine Babcock & Wilcox boilers, four Parsons 
                  geared turbines, 120,000 shp (90 MW)
                 Length, overall: 809 feet 9 inches 
                 Beam: extreme width at flight deck: 144 feet
                 Draft: 21 feet 8 inches 
                 Displacement: 25,600 tons full load 
                 Speed: 33 knots 
                 Planes: 90
                 Crew: 2919 
                 Armament:  8 five-inch guns, 4 1.1-inch gunsmachine guns; 
                  24 .50 caliber machine guns