Hawaii CB-3

Hawaii

An American island territory in the Pacific, later the 50th State.

(CB: dp. 27,500; 1. 808'6"; b. 90'10", dr. 27'1" s. 33 k.;
a. 9 12" planned; cl. Alaska)

Hawaii ( CB-3) was launched 3 November 1945 by New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J. sponsored by Mrs. Joseph R. Farrington, wife of the delegate from the Territory of Hawaii. One of a projected class of Six battle cruiser type ships, of which only two were completed, Hawaii and her sisters were designed to cope with the large German "pocket battleships" and Japanese armored cruisers. Due to the reduction in defense expenditures after World War II, her construction was suspended. In September 1947 she stood 84 percent complete. For a time it was planned that Hawaii should be converted to the Navy's first guided missile ship, but she remained in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. Her classification was changed to large command ship, CBC-1, 26 February 1952 when conversion was again contemplated
but she reverted to her original classification 9 October 1954 and was sold for scrap to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, Md., in 1959 after being struck from the Navy List 9 June 1958.