USS Hawaii (CB-3)

The USS Hawaii was in the shipyard New York Shipbuilding Corp. on November 3, 1945., left in Camden, New Jersey from the stack. Was christened the USS Hawaii Mrs. Joseph R. Farrigton, wife of the deputies of the Territory of Hawaii. After this territory and this island group, which was later incorporated as the 50th U.S. state, the ship was named.

She was the third ship of the Alaska class were completed of which only the first two ships USS Alaska ( lead ship of her class) and the USS Guam. This ship class that as Large Cruiser: classified (Eng. Large cruiser ), was designed, the heavy armored cruisers of the Japanese Empire to counter that were planned in the project BB -65, but never built. After the Second World War was over, their further construction was stopped. At this time, September 1947, the USS Hawaii was completed to 84 %.

It was considered, rebuild it for the first guided missile cruiser, but then remained the USS Hawaii but in the reserve fleet. She was reclassified to CBC -1, a large command ship, on 26 February 1952. Recently, she was again reclassified on October 9, 1954 for the Great cruiser and 1959, sold to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, Md., for scrapping after had been removed from the list of ships of the United States Navy on June 9, 1958.