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USS Oklahoma (BB-37) in Dry Dock, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, 1928 (est.)
No, I did not take this photograph!
However it is one of my most prized images, as it is a digital scan directly from an original shipyard print mounted to hard stock which I purchased many years ago.
As a native Oklahoman and former naval officer, this image is especially meaningful to me. The ship to which I was assigned after commissioning in 1970, the USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19), was built in this same dry dock. Given the approximate date of 1928, this image was likely made with either an 8×10 or 5×7 sheet film camera. As a result the original print is extremely sharp.The tremendous size of this ship is not apparent until one sees the two men in white shirts standing in the bottom of the dry dock next to the hull. A check of this historic battleship’s history indicates the Oklahoma was heavily refitted in Philadelphia during this yard period. It was a Nevada class battleship–the first battleships to burn fuel oil instead of coal.
On December 7, 1941, Oklahoma was heavily damaged during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and it capsized and sank in the mud. It was eventually righted and refloated, but the navy determined that it could not be repaired. While being towed to the west coast for scrapping in 1947 it sank in a storm.