Every Pearl Harbor Battleship Ranked — By What's Left of Her Today

On the morning of the 7th of December, 1941, there were eight American battleships at Pearl Harbor. Within two hours four were on the bottom, one had capsized, one was beached and burning. Eighty-five years later almost all of that steel is gone - not sunk by the Japanese, but sold, cut up and melted down by the country that built it. Some of it survives. One ship has never been found. One lay unseen three miles down for seventy years. And one is visited by two million people a year and still leaks oil into the harbour where she sank. This is all eight, ranked by one simple, physical rule: how much of the actual ship still exists today, and how close you can get to it. CHAPTERS 0:00 Eight battleships, one morning 1:32 Where are you watching from? 1:47 The salvage nobody talks about 2:43 The divers 3:32 #8 USS Oklahoma 6:40 #7 USS California 8:53 #6 USS Tennessee 10:04 #5 USS Maryland 11:17 #4 USS West Virginia 13:30 #3 USS Pennsylvania 15:16 #2 USS Nevada 17:45 #1 USS Arizona 19:38 The ninth ship: USS Utah 20:40 The full ranking 21:53 The only one nobody could save Have you ever stood on the Arizona Memorial? And if somebody in your family was at Pearl Harbor that morning, in any ship, tell us his name and where he was. Those comments matter more than anything else on this channel. SOURCES & ARCHIVE Archival photographs and film from the U.S. National Archives, the Naval History and Heritage Command, the Library of Congress and the U.S. Navy, via Wikimedia Commons and the Internet Archive. U.S. federal works are in the public domain. Some shots of a ship's later career show her sister ships or the same campaign; where a particular moment was not photographed, the closest surviving images are used. CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION Images licensed CC BY / CC BY-SA, used with credit to their authors (licence texts: creativecommons.org/licenses). CC BY-SA 3.0: Stan Shebs; Rwminix; Brycermeyer; Roman Eugeniusz; Roisterer; Arjunkrsen; Adamdiemond; Cristo Vlahos; Flynn.timo CC BY-SA 4.0: Oleg Yunakov; MPSharwood; Jdogmad; remiforall; Dave osm; Photohistory242; More Than Retro CC BY 2.0: Daniel Ramirez; USMC Archives; Naval History & Heritage Command; Erin Magee/DFAT; Mike McBey CC BY-SA 2.0: Harley Flowers; Matt Kieffer CC BY 3.0: U.S. Marine Corps; BrokenSphere MUSIC (looped and faded; links in the pinned comment) "The return of the king", "The ride of the Dark Knight", "Letter to a princess", "Lux aeterna", "The age of the Empire" - zero-project (CC BY 3.0) "Hope" - Yakov Golman (CC BY 3.0) "Melancholic Piano", "Ambient" - Alexander Blu (CC BY 3.0) "Soundscape - Dust - Ambient Guitar" - Tri-Tachyon (CC BY 4.0) "Rusty Studio" - Voytek Pavlik (CC BY 3.0) "Wither" - Temperament (CC BY 3.0)