| Keel laid: | Oct. 27, 1943
| Population electric power could serve:
| 1 million |
| Commissioning: | Sept. 10, 1945
| Equivalent power in locomotives:
| 40 |
| Propulsion: | conventional
| Homes fuel supply could heat for one year:
| 3,000 |
| Horsepower: | 200,000/shaft plus
| Monthly business in ship's stores:
| $1,000,000 |
| Speed: | 30-plus knots (35 mph+)
| Monthly payroll: | $1,200,000
|
| Length overall: | 1001'6"
| Fresh water produced daily:
| 240,000 gal. |
| Extreme width: | 258'
| Ship's stores: | 6
|
| Displacement (fully loaded):
| 70,000 tons | Meals served daily:
| 13,000 |
| Height (total): | 222'3"
| | |
| Area of flight deck: |
4.02 acres | --------------------------------------
| |
| Number of propellers: |
4 | Daily food requirements--
| |
| Weight per propeller: |
22 tons | Bread:
| 1,000 loaves |
| Height of each propeller:
| 18' | Vegetables w/o potatoes:
| 5,000 lbs. |
| Number of catapults: |
2 | Meat:
| 4,500 lbs. |
| Aircraft elevators: |
3 | Dry provisions:
| 20,000 lbs. |
| Telephones: | 1,5000-plus
| Potatoes: | 3,000
|
| Crew: | 4,500-Plus
| | |
| Boilers: | 12
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| |
| Aircraft carried: | up to 80
| Ship's capacity for storing consumable goods--
| |
| Compartments: | over 2,000
| Dry provisions: | 1,500,300 lbs.
|
| Electric motors: | over 2,000
| Vegetables: | 205,000 lbs.
|
| Miles of piping: | about 200
| Meat: | 240,000 lbs.
|
| Miles of copper conductor:
| 3,000 | Dairy:
| 66,300 lbs. |
| Miles of fire hose: |
4.5 | |
|
| Ship fuel capacity: |
2.23 million gal. |
| |
| Jet fuel capacity: |
1,241,534 gal. |
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