Hey guys, I'm trying to figure out the reason
Pennsy,
Cassin and
Downes were drydocked during Dec. 7th and I'm coming up short. DANFS was even a let down and I figured they'd list the reason if any but no joy.
What I know so far is that she entered the dry dock on or about Dec. 1 along with the two cans that may have been there first; can't find any dates for them.
Pennsy was scheduled to leave on Dec. 6th and assume her usual berth behind the drydock (where
Helena was during the 7th) but unknown "delays" prevented her from doing so. She more than likely owed her life to those unspecified delays as she more than likely would have drawn more attention and damage had she been moored normally.
One book I have,
"Keystone State Battlewagon" only adds to this by stating that "her three screws had been removed" during the docking. Seeing as how she was a 4 screw ship that was either a typo or all 4 or only 3 were removed.
She was only scheduled to be docked for a week so I can't imagine anything really major was to be done but removing screws is a major operation so...
That's as much as I can discern about the reasons she was docked. I have Stillwell's
Arizona book on order from the library but I doubt it will help.
I have a long term project on the books to display them as they were, drydocked, before the attack. I want to know as much as I can about them so I can add a small writeup to the project.
Any and all help is appreciated as always,
-Mike