Many thanks for seconding Sensei Kaplan's Maryland fix, O most honorable master of arcane and convoluted USN documents, and photos! Mandarin of the Archives! And, thank you for the most excellent Maryland phots (P.S. You would not happen to know of a quick link to the summer 1941 Life photos of Maryland---a way to avoid hours of sifting through the Life site?).

A question regarding the deck of the Maryland: was she one of the ships which had painted wooden decks? The planks look very dark in those two phots you posted---or is this just waterlogged wood?