uss oklahoma (bb-37)

USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was the second and last of the Nevada-class battleships built for the United States Navy. The ship was laid down in 1912 and launched two years later in 1914. The vessel participated in America's involvement in World War I and helped evacuate American citizens and refugees fleeing the Spanish Civil War in 1936 before being assigned to the Pacific.

In the opening minutes of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Oklahoma was targeted by Japanese torpedo bombers to devastating effect, hitting the vessel with five to eight torpedoes in almost as many minutes and causing her to roll over until the ship's superstructure dug into the bottom of the harbor. Salvage operations after the attack deemed the ship too badly damaged to be returned to service, making Oklahoma one of only two battleships permanently lost to the attack.

Oklahoma was officially decommissioned in 1944 and sold for scrap in 1946, but while being towed in 1947 from Hawaii to the scrapyard in California, Oklahoma and her tugs encountered a storm which swamped the hasty repairs to make the former battleship seaworthy. Oklahoma abruptly sank, her exact whereabouts unknown.

The berth at Pearl Harbor where Oklahoma sank is still in use today, occupied by the museum ship USS Missouri (BB-63).

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Nevada-class battleships

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