Battleships: Nevada Class

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Oklahoma, along with her sister, the NEVADA, was the first class of USN BBs armored along the "all or nothing" principle. Unlike her sister she retained triple expansion engines in lieu of NEVADAs' turbines. When built they were among the most powerful battlewagons afloat. By 1941 they were simply old, and despite a large modernization in the late 20s, were second class compared to new 3rd generation BBs taking to the oceans.

OKLAHOMA was one of 2 USN BBs lost at Pearl Harbor. While the hulk was righted and raised, she wasn't worth the expense of rebuilding. The hulk was lost in a storm while being towed back to U.S. mainland postwar. DFO
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Not being familiar with how to raise a mammoth like these, albeit in relatively shallow water, the effort to re float these must have been a huge challenge .....yes easier than building another, but the technical difficulties to overcome and the stress factors to be addressed are beyond my understanding , as it was not just a case of patching and refloating the massive structure but also the mental stress put on those involved must have been enormous ....talk about post traumatic stress ..... bad enough clearing damaged structure... never mind the decomposing bodies ...

Hopefully some lessons learned from Scapa Flow were passed on to the USN to assist in this massive task in haste to assist

The Native civilian retaliatory feelings is something rarely aired, but they were subjected to much abuse I'm sure ......and the wrong place at the wrong time .

But from these ashes the true power of the American recuperation process stood fast and generated an unstoppable recovery I 'm pleased to note.
I'm sure it is still a very emotive subject even now , and can only express our sympathy to all those who perished there on that terrible day , and the following years it took to rebuild the losses to both material and manpower....... respectfully remembered
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Nevada Class Dreadnought Battleship USS Oklahoma pictured c1919.
Commissioned in 1916, Oklahoma served in World War I as a part of Battleship Division 6, protecting Allied convoys on their way across the Atlantic.She was notable for being the first American Class of oil-burning Dreadnoughts.After the war, she served in both the United States Battle Fleet and Scouting Fleet. Oklahoma was modernized between 1927 and 1929.
On December 7th 1941, Oklahoma was sunk by several torpedoes during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Torpedoes from torpedo bomber aircraft hit the Oklahoma's hull and she capsized. Survivors jumped off the ship 50 feet into burning hot water or crawled across mooring lines that connected Oklahoma and Maryland. Some sailors inside escaped when rescuers drilled holes and opened hatches to rescue them. A total of 429 crew died when she capsized and sank in Battleship Row. In 1943, Oklahoma was righted and salvaged. Unlike most of the other Battleships that were recovered following Pearl Harbor, Oklahoma was too damaged to return to duty. Her wreck was eventually stripped of her remaining armament and superstructure before being sold for scrap in 1946. The hulk sank in a storm in 1947, while being towed from Oahu, Hawaii, to a breakers yard in San Francisco Bay.
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Nevada Class Battleship USS Oklahoma pictured at Portsmouth,UK with Revenge Class Battleship HMS Royal Oak in the foreground,on June 19th 1936...Both Battleships have a very similar profile,post Oklahoma's modernisation refit.
On December 7th1941, Oklahoma was sunk by several torpedoes during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Torpedoes from torpedo bomber aircraft hit the Oklahoma's hull and the ship capsized. Survivors jumped off the ship 50 feet into burning hot water or crawled across mooring lines that connected Oklahoma and Maryland. Some sailors inside escaped when rescuers drilled holes and opened hatches to rescue them. A total of 429 crew died when she capsized and sank in Battleship Row. In 1943, Oklahoma was righted and salvaged. Unlike most of the other Battleships that were recovered following Pearl Harbor, Oklahoma was too damaged to return to duty. Her wreck was eventually stripped of her remaining armament and superstructure before being sold for scrap in 1946. The hulk sank in a storm in 1947, while being towed from Oahu, Hawaii, to a breakers yard in San Francisco Bay.
On October 14th 1939, Royal Oak was anchored at Scapa Flow in Orkney, Scotland, when she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-47. Of Royal Oak's complement of 1,234 men and boys, 833 were killed that night or died later of their wounds. The loss of the outdated ship—the first of the five Royal Navy Battleships and Battlecruisers sunk in the Second World War—did little to affect the numerical superiority enjoyed by the British navy and its Allies, but the sinking had considerable effect on wartime morale. The raid made an immediate celebrity and war hero out of the U-boat commander, Günther Prien, who became the first German Submarine officer to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Before the sinking of Royal Oak, the Royal Navy had considered the naval base at Scapa Flow impregnable to submarine attack, and U-47's raid demonstrated that the German Navy was capable of bringing the war to British home waters. The shock resulted in rapid changes to dockland security and the construction of the Churchill Barriers around Scapa Flow.The wreck of Royal Oak, a designated war grave, lies almost upside down in 100 feet of water with her hull 16 feet beneath the surface. In an annual ceremony to mark the loss of the ship, Royal Navy divers place a White Ensign underwater at her stern. Unauthorised divers are prohibited from approaching the wreck at any time under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986.
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Meanwhile....hulk of OKLAHOMA lies someplace between Hawaii n mainland. Sank in a storm while under tow back to be scrapped.

The NEVADA and OKLAHOMA were the first USN "all or nothing" armored battleships. Quite a size contrast with 3rd gen WISCONSIN. ;) DFO
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Nevada Class Battleship USS Oklahoma pictured c1916.
She was built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden New Jersey in 1910, notable for being the first American class of oil-burning Dreadnoughts.
Commissioned in 1916, Oklahoma served in World War I as a part of Battleship Division Six, protecting Allied convoys on their way across the Atlantic. After the war, she served in both the United States Battle Fleet and Scouting Fleet. Oklahoma was modernized between 1927 and 1929. In 1936, she rescued American citizens and refugees from the Spanish Civil War. On returning to the West Coast in August of the same year, Oklahoma spent the rest of her service in the Pacific.
On December 7th 1941, Oklahoma was sunk by several torpedoes during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Torpedoes from torpedo bomber aircraft hit the Oklahoma's hull and she capsized. A total of 429 crew died; survivors jumped off the ship 50 feet into oil burning hot water or crawled across mooring lines that connected Oklahoma and Maryland. Some sailors inside escaped when rescuers drilled holes and opened hatches to rescue them. In 1943, Oklahoma was righted and salvaged. Unlike most of the other Battleships that were recovered following Pearl Harbor, Oklahoma was too damaged to return to duty. Her wreck was eventually stripped of her remaining armament and superstructure before being sold for scrap in 1946. The hulk sank in a storm in 1947, while being towed from Oahu, to a breakers yard in San Francisco Bay.
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Nevada as rebuilt after Pearl Harbor. She did not receive the massive rebuilt like West Virginia and her sisters, but she did pack every 5" and 40 mm they could squeeze on board, and they were needed in the Pacific.


Nevada as rebuilt.
USS NEVADA.2.jpg


A little bit about Nevada's sortie during the Pearl Harbor attack. There is always confusion about exactly where she ended up and how she got there. As she attempted to sortie from Pearl she was heavily bombed as she passed the USS California, causing her to ground bow first at Hospital Point which is south of Ford Island. She shows up in the background of some shots of Ford Island taken during the attack. The tide gradually swung her stern across the channel so that her stern was actually pointing toward the west side of the entrance channel, and it was at this point that she was backed off and grounded on a shallow reef up against the western shore of Pearl Harbor, just north of the entrance channel to prevent her from blocking the channel. This was her final resting place until refloated and sent home for repairs.


Nevada beached at Hospital Point before her stern swung almost 180 around.
USS NEVADA BEACHED AT HOSPITAL POINT.jpg

Here is Nevada aground in early 1942, across the channel from Hospital Point. Her grounding spot is, of course, now known as Nevada Point.
USS NEVADA UNDER SALVAGE.1942.jpg
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Nevada Class Battleship USS Oklahoma pictured at Guantanamo Bay in 1920.
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Sopwith 1½ Strutter pictured on No 2 turret take off platform on Lead Ship,Battleship USS Nevada in 1921.
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A pre war and PH view of NEVADA.............DFO
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