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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
Of the 54 PCERs ordered, 13 were laid down, 12 were commissioned, and 5 saw service as rescue ships. The ships served three missions: damage control / firefighting; casualty treatment / evacuation; and patrol / guardship. Each ship's hospital was composed of 65 beds, a surgical suite, and X-Ray facilities.
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 ...
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.
The capsized battleship USS Oklahoma is rotated upright while under salvage at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 8 March 1943. The ship is in the 130-degree position, with its bow on the left and the starboard deck edge just rising from the water. Parbuckle salvage, or parbuckling, is the righting of a sunken vessel using rotational leverage.
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.
May 31—Growing up in rural Indiana, brothers Harold and William Trapp and their sister, Irene, were inseparable. "My mother's family lived in the country, so there weren't a lot of other people ...