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USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was a Nevada-class battleship built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation for the United States Navy, notable for being the first American class of oil-burning dreadnoughts. Commissioned in 1916, the ship served in World War I as a part of Battleship Division Six , protecting Allied convoys on their way across the Atlantic.
USS PC-1264, one of 2 USN ships with a nearly all African-American crew in WW2 USS PC-1265 1376 to 1465 used by PCS patrol minesweepers, a few did hold the PC designation at times
Oklahoma was the name of one ship of the United States Navy and will be the name of a future submarine. USS Oklahoma (BB-37), a Nevada-class battleship launched in 1914 and sunk by Japanese bombers in the attack on Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941. USS Oklahoma (SSN-802), a planned Virginia-class nuclear attack submarine.
After a dayslong effort to rescue the sailors that could still be heard banging on the inside of the doomed ship, 429 people on the Oklahoma were pronounced dead. More than 2,400 people were ...
The submarine will be the first US Navy vessel with the state's name since Battleship Oklahoma was attacked and sunk at Pearl Harbor in 1941. Gov. Stitt announces new USS Oklahoma submarine, named ...
The Weight-class salvage ship USS Swivel (ARS-36). The United States Navy operated Weight-class rescue and salvage ships (ARS) from August 1943 until the last example was decommissioned in June 1946. The Weight-class ships were originally intended for delivery to the Royal Navy under different names, as part of the Lend-Lease program. However ...
Each of the submarine rescue ships had divers assigned too. USS Florikan was sent to Kiska Harbor after divers off USS Ute confirmed the Japanese submarine I-7 was lying on the bottom in ten fathoms (18 m) of water. Seven divers off the Florikan salvaged intelligence materials from the sub. [21]
Oklahoma (SSN-802) will be a Virginia-class nuclear powered attack submarine in the United States Navy. She is to be the second vessel named for the state of Oklahoma , and the first to carry the name since the loss of the battleship USS Oklahoma (BB-37) during the attack on Pearl Harbor , which led to the US involvement in World War II .