Keywords: USS Oklahoma (BB-37) hulk at Pearl Harbor in 1947.jpg The U S Navy battleship USS Oklahoma BB-37 at Pearl Harbor Hawaii USA before she was towed to the continental United States for scrapping In May 1947 a two-tug towing operation began to move the hull of the Oklahoma from Pearl Harbor to the scrapyard in San Francisco Bay However the hulk sank on 17 May when the ships entered a storm more than 800 km from Hawaii http //www navy mil/ah_online/department_arch html U S Navy All Hands magazine http //www navy mil/ah_online/archpdf/ah194707 pdf July 1947 p 26 1947 U S Navy PD-USGov-Military-Navy USS Oklahoma BB-37 Pearl Harbor in the 1940s 1947 in Hawaii |