USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor: 1,177 Crew Lost, Not a Passenger Ship

The USS Arizona (BB-39) was a Pennsylvania-class battleship, not a passenger vessel. On December 7, 1941, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor:

• 1,177 sailors and Marines were aboard (out of ~1,512 crew).
• All 1,177 were killed when a bomb detonated the forward magazine.
• It remains the greatest single-ship loss of life in U.S. Navy history.
• The wreck is a National Memorial; oil still seeps ("black tears").

The high casualty count reflects a fully manned warship at battle stations on a Sunday morning, not civilian passengers.