USS NORTH CAROLINA (BB-55)

Class: North Carolina Launched: June 13, 1940 At: New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York Commissioned: April 9, 1941 Length: 728 feet, 9 inches Beam: 108 feet, 3 inches Draft: 35 feet Displacement: 36,600 tons Armament: Nine 16-inch/45 caliber guns; twenty 5-inch/38 caliber guns; sixty 40mm ... read more