 This ship was commissioned at Everett, Washington, on 10 May 1943, Captain Andrew R. Mack in command.With all ten sections joined, she was 927 feet long, 28 feet tall (keel to welldeck), and with an inside clear width of 133 feet 7 inches.Each section was 3,850 tons and 93 feet long, with a 165-foot beam, a 75-feet molded depth, and 10,000 tons of lifting capacity.