Which U.S. battleship at Pearl Harbor was named for the state of West Virginia?

The U.S. battleship named for the state of West Virginia was USS West Virginia.

USS West Virginia was a Colorado-class battleship moored at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack. It was struck by multiple torpedoes and bombs, suffered severe flooding, and sank at its berth. Damage-control efforts helped prevent the ship from capsizing, unlike USS Oklahoma nearby.

Salvage crews raised West Virginia and carried out a lengthy reconstruction. The rebuilt battleship returned to combat in 1944 and supported American amphibious operations across the Pacific. It fired during the Battle of Surigao Strait in October 1944, one of the last battleship-versus-battleship actions in naval history.

The ship’s name is sometimes shortened informally to West Virginia, but its formal naval designation is USS West Virginia. It was one of the battleships that survived the attack and later returned to the war.