"Slowly and stately... as if she were tired and wanted to rest. She kept rolling until her mast and superstructure jamed in the mud, leaving her bottom-up a huge dead whale lying in the water.
Only eleven minutes had passed since the first topedo hit."
Chief Albert Molter
As the torpedoes ripped open her side, in a matter of 11 minutes the Oklahoma capsized to a 150 degree angle, 30 degrees of being vertically upside down.
The bottom of the ship lay exposed and the men trapped inside began to
frantically bang on the inside of the hull.
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