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USS Utah (BB-31/AG-16) was the second of two Florida class dreadnought battleships. The first ship of the United States Navy named after the state of Utah , she had one sister ship , Florida . Utah was built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation , laid down in March 1909 and launched in December of that year.
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
USS Utah (AG-16) was hit by two torpedoes dropped from B5N "Kate" bombers at the onset of the attack on Pearl Harbor. She immediately began listing and capsized within ten minutes. Fifty-eight men were lost on Utah during the attack. Attempts to salvage the old ship were abandoned and today her wreck lies in Pearl Harbor as a war memorial.
The USS Arizona (BB-39) was too badly damaged to be repaired and the USS Utah (BB-31) salvage was stopped. USS Oklahoma was salvaged but not put back in service due to her age. The shipyard did not have all the material and equipment to do the salvage operations and had to be shipped from the mainland, arriving in February 1942. The USS Nevada ...
Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Utah in honor of the 45th state. USS Utah (BB-31), a Florida-class battleship, was launched on 23 December 1909 and was sunk during the Attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941; USS Utah (SSN-801), a Virginia-class submarine currently authorized for construction
A Balao-class submarine sunk in a collision with USS Silverstein. USS Tinosa United States Navy: November 1960 A Gato-class submarine that was scuttled after being used as an anti-submarine warfare target. USS Utah United States Navy: 7 December 1941 A former battleship converted to a training and target ship lost in the Japanese bombing of ...
Because of the shallow working depth the divers had no diving time limitation leading to fourteen hour days seven days a week. The Salvage Unit list of work included USS California, USS Nevada, USS Utah, USS Arizona, USS West Virginia, USS Oklahoma and USS Oglala. [8] [9] They were assisted by the divers off USS Widgeon and USS Ortolan. [10]
USS Utah United States Navy: USS Utah World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor: The target ship, a former Florida-class battleship, was torpedoed and sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft with the loss of 58 of her 519 crew. USS Vestal United States Navy