"Arizona" ( English. USS Arizona ) - the American battleship type " Pennsylvania ". Launched on June 19, 1915 . Sunk by Japanese aircraft on December 7, 1941 in Pearl Harbor . Not raised. The remains of the ship, located at the bottom of the bay, turned into a memorial .
| "Arizona" | |
|---|---|
| USS Arizona (BB-39) | |
 Arizona on a sea voyage. On board is US President Herbert Hoover . 1931 year . | |
| Service | |
 USA | |
| Named after | |
| Class and type of vessel | Pennsylvania class battleship |
| Manufacturer | Brooklyn navy yard |
| Construction started | March 16, 1914 [1] |
| Launched | June 19, 1915 [1] |
| Commissioned | October 17, 1916 [1] |
| Withdrawn from the fleet | December 7, 1941 [1] |
| Status | destroyed |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 31,400 tons |
| Length | 180 meters along the waterline ; 185.4 m total |
| Width | 32 m |
| Speed | 21 knots (39 km / h) |
| Crew | 1385 sailors and officers |
| Armament | |
| Artillery | When launching: 4 × 3 - 356 mm / 45 22 guns of caliber 5 "/ 51 [2] |
| Mine torpedo armament | 2 × 533 mm torpedo tubes |
During the raid of Japanese aviation four powerful air bombs hit the battleship. Once in the bow compartments and breaking through several decks, they exploded deep in the ship's hull, where the main ammunition cellars were located. There was a detonation of cellars of the bow towers of the Civil Code. After which the battleship promptly scored water and lay down on the ground. Of the approximately 1,400 people on board, only one in nine managed to escape. 1,177 people died.
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Arizona Battleship Memorial
In the early 1960s, in memory of the tragedy in Pearl Harbor, the Americans erected a memorial over the battleship’s underwater hull. Every year on December 7, a Christian memorial service is held here, a prayer service for the souls of the dead sailors and pilots.
See also
- List of US Navy Warships Lost in WWII
Images
Battleship "Arizona" on the background of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York
Battleship "Arizona" drowns after an explosion caused by a Japanese bomb
A memorial over the Arizona building. The outlines of the sunken battleship and oil spots on the surface of the water — the “tears” of the ship — are clearly visible.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 ARIZONA (BB 39) (English) (link not available) . Naval Vessel Register (30 August 2001). Date of treatment March 7, 2017. Archived March 7, 2017.
- ↑ Breyer 1973 p. 214
- ↑ Stefan Terzibaschitsch, Der Schlachtschiffe der US Navy im 2. Weltkreig , JF Lehmanns Verlag , 1977.
Literature
- This article contains text from the public domain of the American Warships Dictionary . The entry can be found here .
- Breyer, Siegfried. Battleships and Battle Cruisers 1905-1970. - Doubleday and Company, 1973. - ISBN 0385-0-7247-0 .
- Prange, Gordon W. At Dawn We Slept: The untold story of Pearl Harbor . New York, USA: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1981. ISBN 0-14-015734-4
- Stillwell, Paul. Battleship Arizona: An Illustrated History. Annapolis, Maryland: US Naval Institute Press, 1991. ISBN 0-87021-023-8
- Taylor, Michael JH Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I. - Studio, 1990 .-- ISBN 1-85170-378-0 .
- Daniel Madsen, Salvaging the Battle Fleet at Pearl Harbor , US Naval Institute Press, 2003.
Links
- [1] - Detailed information on USS Arizona, location and list of debris. (eng.)
- Interactive USS Arizona Memorial - Information on those who died and served on the ship, by name. (eng.)
- Loss of USS Arizona
- Maritimequest USS Arizona BB-39 photo gallery
- USS Arizona (BB-39), 1916-1941 Online Library of Selected Images (US Navy )
- NavSource Online: Battleship Photo Archive BB-39 USS Arizona Construction - 1918
- USS Arizona Memorial (US National Park Service )
- Remembering Pearl Harbor: The USS Arizona Memorial, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan Mary, if you are reading this, then I am bored, but still as clever!