Word: battleships
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...Although battleships suffered most, cruisers did not escape. The Honolulu, Helena and Raleigh were disabled. So were other vessels: the 8,100-ton repair ship Vestal, the new 8,625-ton seaplane tender Curtiss. The minelayer Oglala, with the destroyers Shaw, Cassin and Downes and the target ship Utah (a retired battleship) were reported lost in Secretary Knox's report...
Surprising as was the havoc wrought along Pearl Harbor's battleship row, there were other eyebrow-raising items in the Navy's long-awaited report...
Half, or part, or what part, was still a mystery last week. Most reliable sources in London said that, while a few vessels might have escaped, all available information showed that the battleship Strasbourg and the cruisers Algerie, Dupleix and Colbert had been sunk, that most of the other 58 French warships in Toulon on that shattering dawn had at least been seriously damaged...
...With the battleship Jean Bart out of action at Casablanca (see cut), it looked as though the French fleet as such was, for a while...
...that "Ria says" this or that ought to be done; they did it. She heard that the outworn U.S.S. Oregon, relic of the Spanish-American War, was to be decommissioned by the Navy. Said she: it ought to be brought to Portland, turned into a shrine. Soon the massive battleship was anchored in the Willamette River in downtown Portland...