| Moored outboard of Maryland
and ahead of West Virginia, Oklahoma was subject to a devastating
port-side torpedo attack, sustaining at least nine torpedo impacts
within the first 15 minutes of the attack. Combined with near misses by
bombs, the damage was so extensive that she capsized at her berth.
Although her salvage was questionable, it was decided to rid the harbor
of her hulk to make her berth at F-5 available for other ships. In what
was the most technically difficult task faced by the salvage division at
Pearl Harbor, she was successfully righted in June, 1943. She was
refloated in November of that year, and was moored in Middle Loch until
1947. Sold for scrap for $146,000.00, she was towed by two tugs for the
West Coast but was lost enroute 540 miles northeast of Pearl Harbor on
May 17, 1947.
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