Zf496. This date, 1941 6 12, the BEAVER CITY NB TIMES reports about the first battleship commissioned since 1923 at Brooklyn Navy Yard and that it was built without portholes.
In their research, the wife of the person, subject of their book, had to go to New York to catch the Army Personnel Transport Ship, USAT Republic and arrived at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on June 11, 1941. She probable saw the USS North Carolina there.