He hit his tee shot into the water at the 13th, bogeyed the 15th, double-bogeyed the 17th with a wedge into the water and bogeyed the 18th when he bounced his approach off the bulkhead left of the pin.
These thin bulkheads left the end magazines very vulnerable to shells fired from bearings in front of or behind the ship.
A cofferdam is a small space left open between two bulkheads, to give protection from heat, fire, or collision.
As Mr. Krevey and others who have followed the story of Lightship No. 84 tell it, whoever took the vessel north apparently went bankrupt and left it tied to a bulkhead near Hastings-on-Hudson, just north of the Tappan Zee Bridge.
The guns on the main deck amidships were protected by a section of 4.5-inch armour, 103 feet long, with 4.5-inch transverse bulkheads at each end which left the chase guns unprotected.
Portholes had already been loosened, watertight doors and condenser covers left open, and in some ships holes had been bored through bulkheads, all to facilitate the spread of water once scuttling began.
And the lack of a splinter bulkhead behind the armor of the turrets, barbettes and conning towers left all of those locations vulnerable to main gun hits.
What happened next, we may never know, but if I were to continue with my conclusion, the one crew member left on deck probably grabbed his blanket and placed his back to the forward bulkhead of the cockpit and was facing aft.
There was no anti-torpedo bulkhead although there was a longitudinal bulkhead abreast the machinery spaces that was used either as a coal bunker or left as a void.
The Navy spent $20 million to clean the Oriskany, but left an estimated 700 pounds of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, on the ship, mainly in wiring and bulkhead insulation.
