Pearl Harbor Ship Placement. The battleships of the u s. Both ships were considered lost but their machinery and equipment were salvaged and sent to mare island navy yard where entirely new ships were built around the salvaged material and given the wrecked ships names and hull numbers.
Eight of these were battleships seven of which were lined up along battleship row making them easy targets for the attackers. When the japanese attacked pearl harbor on december 7 1941 a number of ships and planes suffered serious blows in the attack. Both ships were considered lost but their machinery and equipment were salvaged and sent to mare island navy yard where entirely new ships were built around the salvaged material and given the wrecked ships names and hull numbers.
The harbour is virtually surrounded west to east by the cities of ewa waipahu pearl city aiea and honolulu.
Ninety six of the pearl harbor ships were warships. Destroyer division 80 consisting of the four old destroyers allen chew schley and ward. Ships marked with an asterisk were within twelve miles of the island of oahu but were not actually within pearl. The memorial built in 1962 is visited by more than two million.
