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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 Utah, lost like the Oklahoma in the Pearl Harbor attack, was meant to be recovered by a similar rotation after the Oklahoma. As the Utah was rotated, however, its hull did not catch on the harbor bottom, and the vessel slid toward Ford Island. The Utah recovery effort was abandoned. [2]
Oklahoma City during World War II. USS Oklahoma City (CL-91) stern with SC Seahawks c. 1945 USS Oklahoma City (CL-91) at sea c. 1945. Following shakedown, Oklahoma City transited the Panama Canal and reported to Commander Cruisers Pacific Fleet (ComCruPac) for duty, arriving at Pearl Harbor on 2 May 1945.
The battleship USS Oklahoma, right, lays capsized alongside the USS Maryland following Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
U.S. Navy Seaman 2nd Class John C. Auld, 23, was from Newcastle, England, and died aboard the USS Oklahoma on Dec. 7.
HMS Royal Oak Royal Navy 833 killed [65]: 14 October 1939 [66: Scapa Flow [67]: Capsized under 33 meters (108 ft) of water. [68]: Royal Oak ' s bell is the centerpiece to a memorial to those who died aboard Royal Oak at St Magnus' Cathedral in Kirkwall. [69]: Bretagne: French Navy: 977 killed [70]: 3 July 1940 [71]: Mers-el-Kébir, Algeria [71]: Scrapped [72]: —. Kilkis [h]: Royal Hellenic ...
William F. Gusie was a 19-year-old Navy Fire Controlman 3rd Class aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma on Dec. 7, 1941, when the ship was torpedoed and sunk, killing 429 sailors and marines.
USS San Francisco in a dry dock, after hitting an underwater mountain 350 miles (560 km) south of Guam in 2005 This article describes major accidents and incidents involving submarines and submersibles since 2000. 2000s 2000 Kursk explosion Main article: Kursk submarine disaster In August 2000, the Russian Oscar II-class submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea when a leak of high-test peroxide ...