USS Colorado

there were eight at Pearl Harbor.

The USS Colorado was in Puget Sound Navy Yard at the time of the attack.

Other battleships at Pearl Harbor had to undergo lengthy repair.

So at the start of the war,

They were gonna refuel in Howland and then head to Hawaii the next day, and the Itasca immediately began searching for her when they lost radio contact.

It was soon joined by the USS Colorado, which had some planes that it launched and flew over the neighboring islands and searched the sea around Howland, and then later the USS Lexington joined, and it had something like 65 planes that essentially over the course of that 16-day period or so, they searched a, an area the size of Texas-

Wow

... and did not find a trace of them.

Alerted by the pre-dawn activities offshore, the garrison opened fire on the task force with their big naval guns at 05-07.

The main batteries of the battleships Colorado, BB-45, and Maryland commenced counter-battery fire almost immediately.

Several 16-inch shells found their mark.

A huge fireball signaled destruction of an ammunition bunker for one of the Japanese gun positions.