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California

Ship Designation: 
BB-44
Date Lost: 
Sunday, December 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor Attack - Battleship Row
During the Pearl Harbor attack at 0805 a bomb exploded below decks in California, setting off an antiaircraft ammunition magazine and killing 50 men. A second bomb ruptured her bow plates. ... Despite valiant efforts to keep her afloat the in-rushing water could not be isolated and the ship settled into the mud with only her superstructure remaining above the surface. When the action ended, 98 of her crew were lost and 61 wounded.

Lost At Sea Log

Number of sailors in this log: 99

Name Service Branchsort ascending
Sea 2c Lewis Pitts USN
F 2c James Ball USN
CRE Thomas Reeves USN
MM 1c Robert Scott USN
Sea 1c Kenneth Payne USN
Matt 1c Moses Allen USN
Sea 2c Lloyd Smith USN
F 3c George Pendarvis USN
F 1c Howard Adkins USN
Sea 1c Wilbur Bailey USN
Sea 1c Glen Baker USN
BM 1c Elmer Carpenter USN
Sea 1c Harold Bandemar USN
Sea 1c Michael Bazetti USN
RM 2c Albert Beal USN
SF 2c Thomas Beckwith USN
PhM 1c Henry Blankenship USN
F 1c Edward Bowden USN
Ens Robert Bowers USN
Sea 1c Robert Brewer USN

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Prepared by CAPT R. O. Strange USN (Ret.)