Keel Laid: June 2, 1941
                 Launched: October 18, 1942
                 Commissioned: February 25, 1943
                 Sunk: October 24, 1944

                 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: 31 knots 
                 Planes: 45 
                 Crew: 1569 
                 Armament: 22 40mm guns, 16 20mm guns