| USS Washington (BB-56) |
| In action off Guadalcanal on the night of 14-15 November, 1942, her gunfire mortally wounded the Japanese battleship Kirishima, making Washington the only American capital ship to defeat one of her own kind in a ship-to-ship action. |
| 80-G-704128 -- James L. Mooney, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981), Vol.8: W-Z, p. flyer page |
