"Question on Arizona" Topic
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| Korvessa | 07 Dec 2013 10:43 a.m. PST |
I am no expert on the Arizona and Pearl Harbor, but as I understand it, several ships were sunk, but were raised and refitted.
Why didn't they do that for Arizona? |
| Cke1st | 07 Dec 2013 10:54 a.m. PST |
The other ships had holes punched in their by torpedoes and took topside damage from bombs, and they suffered water damage. The Arizona suffered much more massive damage, due to the explosion of its forward magazine. Internally, pretty much everything from the forepeak to the boiler rooms was gone. Repairing that kind of damage would be as extensive as building a new ship, and then they'd have a newly-repaired ship whose design pre-dated WWI. It wasn't worth repairing. |
| CJArnold | 07 Dec 2013 12:15 p.m. PST |
What Cke1st said, or in layman's terms, take a soda can,
drop an M80 firecracker into it
run after the explosion and the dust clears see how easy it is to put the can back together. |
| jowady | 07 Dec 2013 2:48 p.m. PST |
USS Oklahoma was also deemed too badly damaged to be raised. USS Utah like the Arizona was never raised. She was undergoing conversion to a target ship. 6 of Arizona's 14 inch guns were recovered and aced in shore batteries. |
| Florida Tory | 07 Dec 2013 2:58 p.m. PST |
The book Resurrection covers this in detail. link I recommend it to anyone interested in the technical aspects both of the damage to the ships and why/how they were raised (or not) off the bottom of the harbor. Rick |
| carne68 | 08 Dec 2013 9:09 a.m. PST |
Oklahoma was raised. She foundered under tow en route to the West Coast. |
| jowady | 08 Dec 2013 12:46 p.m. PST |
Oklahoma was righted after having capsized but she was never going to be returned to service. |
| D for Dubious | 10 Dec 2013 5:26 a.m. PST |
By the 20th century the hull of the ship is comparatively the cheap bit. If you can salvage the equipment then it will likely be quicker than trying to rebuild a damaged hull – see USS Cassin and Downes at Pearl Harbor, where the Americans pulled the equipment out of each one and installed into new hulls. |
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