The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Monday, June 18, 2012

Next Time on Route 66, the USS Oklahoma's Anchor

From Exploring Oklahoma History.

One of the three anchors added during the Navy's modernization of the USS Oklahoma in 1927, it was aboard the USS Oklahoma that fateful day in Pearl Harbor.

It was manufactured in 1919 by Baldt Anchor Company in Chester, Pennsylvania, and weighs in at 19,860 pounds.

It is now in Oklahoma City today thanks to the efforts of Rear Admiral John E. Kirkpatrick and arrived in town in 1961.  It is now in ts third location at NW 12th Avenue and Broadway.

A Real Piece of History.  --GreGen

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