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Oklahoma

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ClassNevada class
TypeBattleship (BB)
HullBB-37
BuilderNew York Shipbuilding
Launched1914-03-23
Commissioned1916-05-02
FateSunk. Capsized at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. Raised and not rebuilt. Lost under tow on 17 May 1947.
Armament (class)Two triple and two twin 14-inch turrets.

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

Oklahoma
USN. USS Oklahoma (BB-37) passing Alcatraz in the 1930s.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was a Nevada-class battleship of the United States Navy. New York Shipbuilding built her. She was launched on 23 March 1914 and commissioned on 2 May 1916.

She was a battleship of that class, a heavy warship of the United States fleet, and her hull number remained BB-37 for the whole of her life as a fighting ship.

On 7 December 1941, during the attack on Pearl Harbor, torpedoes struck Oklahoma and capsized her. The loss is recorded as a torpedo sinking.

The attacker is entered as unknown. The torpedoes that turned her over remain unassigned to any single aircraft. Oklahoma was raised after she capsized. The hull was left unrebuilt. On 17 May 1947, while under tow toward the West Coast, she was lost. That tow ended the ship. A later Navy hull, the submarine Oklahoma (SSN-802), carries the same name and is a different ship.

The pictures on this page are the originals.