Length: 887’ 3″

Beam: 108’ 2″

Draft: 37’ 9″

Displacement: 58,000 tons fully loaded

Boilers: Eight 600-PSI Babock & Wilcox

Main Engines: Four geared Westinghouse turbines

Horsepower: 212,000 shaft horsepower (total all four shafts)

Propellers: Two Five-bladed 17’ 5″ (inboard) Two four-bladed 18’ 3″ (outboard)

Speed: In excess of 33 knots

Tank Capacity: 2.2 million gallons of fuel oil 37,000 gallons of aviation fuel 210,000 gallons of fresh water

Anchors: Two anchors, port and starboard bow, each weighing 30,000 pounds. Each anchor chain is 12 shots or 1,080 feet long and each link weighs about 120 pounds.

Armor: The main armor belt of the hull is 12.1″ tapering 19 degrees vertically to 1.62″. To protect the propellers and shafts aft, the armor is 12.1″ thick.

Other armor thicknesses are:
Turret faces 17″
Turret tops 7.25″
Turret backs 12″
Turret sides 9.5″
Second deck armor 6″
Conning tower sides 17.5″

Personnel:
Design: 1,921 (117 officers, 1,804 enlisted)
WWII: 2,911 (173 officers, 2,738 enlisted)
1949: 2,672 (169 officers, 2,503 enlisted)
1988: 1,575 (67 officers, 1508 enlisted)

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