These would have been the heaviest warships in the US Navy at the time of their commissioning; and would have remained the class with the greatest displacement until the commissioning of the Forrestal-classaircraft carriers, which weighed 79.300 angleških ton (80.600 t) fully loaded. »CV-59 Forrestal class«. Military Analysis Network. Federation of American Scientists. 6. marec 1999. Pridobljeno 24. decembra 2007.