I was on her for the 1986 Med Cruise. I was berthed under the water brakes at the forward end of the catapults. Most of my squadron was under the wires, though. As for speed, 32 knots is all the navigation channel on the TV showed. She could have been going faster.
LOL! The water brakes!
On my first deployment, first day out of port, I was exploring the ship, and was all the way forward, on the level right under the flight deck, when they fired a cat shot. I had never experienced it before, and it scared the bejeezus out of me!