USS Oklahoma Anchor - Oklahoma City, OK
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N 35° 28.891 W 097° 30.831
14S E 634819 N 3927458
One of three anchors from the USS Oklahoma, sunk at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941
Waymark Code: WM8TJ9
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 05/11/2010
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The USS Oklahoma anchor is located in a landscaped median of N Broadway and NW 13th Street in Downtown Oklahoma City. The anchor is on a very large round marble foundation, with a historical marker nearby.
From Wikipedia:
USS Oklahoma (BB-37), the only ship of the United States Navy to ever be named for the 46th state, was a World War I-era battleship and the second of two ships in her class; her sister ship was Nevada. She, along with Nevada, were the first two ships ever to use oil instead of coal.[6]
Commissioned in 1916, Oklahoma served in World War I as a member of BatDiv 6,[4] protecting Allied convoys on their way across the Atlantic. After years of spending time in the Pacific and the Scouting Fleets, Oklahoma was modernized from 1927 to 1929. She rescued American citizens and refugees from the Spanish Civil War in 1936; after returning to the West coast in August of that year, she spent the rest of her life in the Pacific. She was sunk by Japanese bombs and torpedoes on 7 December 1941, in the attack on Pearl Harbor, taking 429 of her crew with her as she capsized.
She was uprighted in 1943, but unlike most of the other battleships damaged in the Pearl Harbor attack, she was never repaired and returned to duty. Instead, Oklahoma was stripped of guns and superstructure, and sold for scrap. She sank while under tow to the mainland in 1947.
Text on marker at site:
USS Oklahoma Anchor
This anchor was one of three that were added during the Navy's modernization of the USS Oklahoma in 1927. Manufactured in 1919 by Baldt Anchor Company in Chester, Pennsylvania. The anchor weighs 19,860 pounds.
Thanks to the efforts of Rear Admiral John E. Kirkpatrick, USNR, Ret., the USS Oklahoma Anchor has had a home in Oklahoma City since 1960. Originally located near the Civic Center at Couch Drive and Robinson Avenue, new construction resulted in the anchor's move to a median at Park Avenue and Broadway Avenue in 1980. In December 2005, the anchor was moved to its current location.
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