Pensacola-class
She was part of the Pensacola-class and nicknamed Swayback Mary. Laid down on 9 June 1927 at the yard of the American Brown Boveri Electric Corporration, launched on 23 January 1929 while sponsored by Helen Budge, commissioned on 11 December of the same year, in 1947 used during atomic bomb experiments and decommissioned on 29 August that year 1947, sunk as a target on 25 May 1948 110 nautical miles of the Southern Californian coast and stricken on 18 June the same year.
With a displacement of 10,860 long tons or 11,000 tons were her dimensions 178,46 x 19,89 x 5,31metres or 585’6” x 65’3”x 17’5”. The four Parsons geared steam turbines and 8 White-Forster boilers supplied 107,000 shp allowing a speed of 32,7 knots. Her crew numbered 612 men. Her armament consisted of 2x3 and 2x2 8”guns, 4x5”anti aircraft guns, 2x3pdr guns, 6-21” torpedo tubes and she carried with her four floatplanes for which she was fitted out with two catapults to launch these planes.
