Battleship Row

Battleship Row was the grouping of nine battleships in port at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese launched the Attack on Pearl Harbor. These ships bore the brunt of the Japanese assault. They were moored next to Ford Island when the attack commenced. The ships were:

* USS "Arizona" - Magazine explosion, sunk with few survivors
* USS "California" - Sunk
* USS "Maryland" - Damaged
* USS "Nevada" - Damaged
* USS "Oklahoma" - Capsized and sunk
* USS "Pennsylvania" - Damaged. The "Pennsylvania" was in dry dock during the attack, making efforts to torpedo her extremely difficult.
* USS "Tennessee" - Damaged
* USS "Vestal" - Damaged and run aground
* USS "West Virginia" - Sunk

Four of the ships were sunk; of the other four, only "Nevada" had serious damage. Following the attack, operations immediately commenced to refloat and repair them. By the end of the war, six of them would see service again (all except the "Arizona" and "Oklahoma"). No battleship that was in the attack on Pearl Harbor is afloat today. The last ship to be either sunk or scrapped was the USS "California" (BB-44) in 1959.

, with smaller vessels clustered around her. Diagonally, from left center to lower right are:
USS Maryland (BB-46), lightly damaged, with the capsized USS Oklahoma (BB-37) outboard. A barge is alongside Oklahoma, supporting rescue efforts.USS Tennessee (BB-43), lightly damaged, with the sunken USS West Virginia (BB-48) outboard. USS Arizona (BB-39), sunk, with her hull shattered by the explosion of the magazines below the two forward turrets. Note dark oil streaks on the harbor surface, originating from the sunken battleships.]