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6 technical drawings on 1 sheet : blueprint ; 28 x 68 cm.
Profile -- Bridge decks, 1-1 -- 2-2 -- Hull sections -- Bow view -- Plan.
Length (o.a.): 573 feet - 0 inches ; Beam: 95 feet - 3 inches ; Draft: 29 feet - 6 inches.
The fifth "New York" (BB-34) was laid down September 11, 1911 by Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, launched October 30, 1912, and commissioned 15 April 1914. Ordered south soon after commissioning, New York was flagship for Rear Admiral Frank Fletcher, commanding the fleet occupying and blockading Vera Cruz until resolution of the crisis with Mexico in July 1914. New York, then headed north for fleet operations along the Atlantic coast as war broke out in Europe. The New York served in both World War I and World War II. From America's entry into World War II, New York guarded Atlantic convoys to Iceland and Scotland when the U-boat menace was gravest, submarine contacts were numerous, but the convoys were brought to harbor intact. At the end of World War II New York prepared at Pearl Harbor for the planned invasion of Japan, and after war's end, made a voyage to the West Coast returning veterans and bringing out their replacements. She sailed from Pearl Harbor again September 29 with passengers for New York, arriving October 19. Here she prepared to serve as target ship in operation "Crossroads," the Bikini atomic tests, sailing March 4, 1946 for the West Coast. She left San Francisco 1 May, and after calls in Pearl Harbor and Kwajalein, reached Bikini 15 June. Surviving the surface blast July 1, and the underwater explosion July 25, she was taken into Kwajalein and decommissioned there August 29, 1946. Later towed to Pearl Harbor, she was studied during the next two years, and on July 8, 1948 was towed out to sea some 40 miles and there sunk after an 8-hour pounding by ships and planes carrying out full-scale battle maneuvers with new weapons.