| Navy | The US Navy |
| Type | Battleship |
| Class | New Mexico |
| Pennant | BB 42 |
| Built by | New York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 20 Jan 1915 |
| Launched | 30 Jun 1917 |
| Commissioned | 24 Mar 1919 |
| End service | 3 Jul 1946 |
| Loss position | |
| History | Stationed at Iceland along with sister ship Mississippi during the Pearl Harbour attack, she soon moved to the Pacific spending the remainder of the war there. She arrived at Tokyo Bay on 27 August 1945 with the occupational force and was close by USS Missouri when the surrender was signed on 2 Septemnber on that ship. Decommissioned 3 July 1946. |
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