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Sunflowers
Career (U.S.)	<a href="/wiki/Image:US_flag_48_stars.svg" class="image" title="United States Navy ensign"><img alt="United States Navy ensign" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/US_flag_48_stars.svg/60px-US_flag_48_stars.svg.png" width="60" height="32" border="0" class="thumbborder" /></a>
Ordered:	1933
Laid down:	<a href="/wiki/July_16" title="July 16">16 July</a> <a href="/wiki/1934" title="1934">1934</a>
Launched:	<a href="/wiki/October_3" title="October 3">3 October</a> <a href="/wiki/1936" title="1936">1936</a>
Commissioned:	<a href="/wiki/May_12" title="May 12">12 May</a> <a href="/wiki/1938" title="1938">1938</a>
Decommissioned:	<a href="/wiki/February_17" title="February 17">17 February</a> <a href="/wiki/1947" title="1947">1947</a>
Status:	Scrapped
General Characteristics
Displacement:	As built: 19,800 tons light 25,500 tons full load 1945: 27,100 tons full load
Length:	As built: 761 feet (waterline) 809 feet 6 inches overall
<a href="/wiki/Beam_%28nautical%29" title="Beam (nautical)">Beam</a>:	As built: 83 feet 3 inches (waterline) 109 feet 6 inches (overall)
<a href="/wiki/Draft_%28hull%29" title="Draft (hull)">Draft</a>:	25 feet 11.5 inches (as built)
Propulsion:	9 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 4 × Parsons geared turbines, 120,000 shp (90 MW) 4 × screws
Speed:	32.5 knots (60.2 km/h)
Range:	12,500 nautical miles (23,150 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement:	2,217 officers and men (1941)
Armament:	As built: 8 × single 5 inch 38 caliber guns 4 × quad 1.1 inch 75 caliber machine guns 24 × .50 caliber machine guns
Armor:	As built: 2.5-4 inch belt 60 lb protective decks 4 inch bulkheads 4 inch side and 2 inch top round conning tower 4 inch side over steering gear
Aircraft carried:	As built: 90 aircraft 3 × elevators 2 × flight deck hydraulic catapults 1 × hangar deck hydraulic catapults
Nickname:	The Big E
Honors and awards:	Presidential Unit Citation / Navy Unit Commendation/American Defense Service Medal ("Fleet" clasp) / American Campaign Medal / Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (20 stars)/World War II Victory Medal / Philippine Presidential Unit Citation / Philippine Liberation Medal (1 star) / British Admiralty Pennant